A COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLATING AND PRESENTING MULTI-FORMAT INFORMATION

Method, system and computer storage medium for searching in microblog

Interoperable systems and methods for peer-to-peerservice orchestration.

PROVIDING DIGITAL CERTIFICATES

METHOD FOR FINDING DOCUMENTS

PROCEDURE FOR THE ORDER FROM ELECTRONIC SIDES

METHOD FOR THE INDEXATION AND SEARCH OF A COLLECTION OF INTERNET DOCUMENTS

SERVICE SUPPLY IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

PROCEDURE AND DEVICE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION AND/OR CALLING UP INFORMATION CONCERNING A USER

METHOD AND PROCEDURE AROUND RELEVANT DOCUMENTS IN A DATA BASE FOR FINDING

Risk assessment using social networking data

Tools, strategies, and techniques are provided for evaluating the identities of different entities to protect individual consumers, business enterprises, and other organizations from identity theft and fraud. Risks associated with various entities can be analyzed and assessed based on analysis of social network data, professional network data, or other networking connections, among other data sources. In various embodiments, the risk assessment may include calculating an authenticity score based on the collected network data.

A method for using user session data to provide middle- ware

There is disclosed a web application or mobile app service containing a session based middle layer between the web application or mobile app service and the business application to facilitate the integration of the user generated transactions with the one or more business applications where: a the session middleware layer isolates the web application or mobile app service from the underlying business applications where : b each user generated transaction triggers at least one primary transaction event in a business application; c user generated transaction can trigger one or more secondary transaction events in one or more business applications to complete the processing of the user transaction request; d the session middleware layer functionality manages the business logic to determine the order of business applications methods are executed to complete the user generated transaction requests.

Batch generation of links to documents based on document name and page content matching

Batch generating of links to documents in which named content is automatically discovered within documents is disclosed. A selection of a plurality of documents is received from a user. Then, a list of search terms each correlated to a hyperlink destination is generated from the received selection of the electronic documents. Each of the plurality of electronic documents is scanned for text strings that match search terms stored in a list. Without user intervention, activatable hyperlinks from the matched text strings in the plurality of electronic documents are generated. Activatable hyperlinks to the respective matched text strings in each of the plurality of electronic documents are appended.

Suggestion box for input keywords

A method and a system for distributing content are provided. In the method, an input regarding an advertising keyword is received from a user. The advertising keyword is associated with one or more advertisements. Related keywords are identified from among candidate keywords based on a determined relationship of the related keywords to the advertising keyword received from the user. Reference information associated with each of the related keywords is identified. The related keywords and the reference information associated with the related keywords to the user are automatically provided. A selection of at least one of the related keywords is received from the user. The at least one selected related keywords are associated with the one or more advertisements for distribution.

System and method for recursively traversing the internet and other sources to identify, gather, curate, adjudicate, and qualify business identity and related data

A system and a method used for data discovery in accordance with an inquiry in which multiple sources, which may be web sites or other data sources, are examined for data relevant to the inquiry. The process and method is performed recursively an indeterminate number of iterations, using data and metadata from multiple sources to corroborate discovered data and metadata from other sources, until no further relevant data or sources are found, or adjudication or exception rules have been met. Discovered data and metadata are curated, adjudicated to assess reliability, synthesized, and clustered into composite records using precedence rules and provenance to determine the most reliable data sources as well as terms of use for each source. Data, metadata, and information about each search are retained and can be used for subsequent purposes, such as subsequent searches or other downstream activities.

Systems and methods for keyword research and content analysis

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR KEYWORD RESEARCH AND CONTENT ANALYSIS Interaction of a user with external data sources related to the research and analysis of terms and content for improved indexing by search engines may be provided. One or more elements of the content may be used to return an analysis of those elements to the user within the experience of a word processing application environment. Systems and methods also may be provided for determining the relative competition of a term or terms to quantitatively derive the number of pages within a corpus that may be actively engaged to improve the indexing of the pages by information retrieval systems, such as search engines. Systems and methods may be further provided for determining the relative ranking of a term or terms based on the frequency and placement of the term or terms within a structured page. Content Competition Formula Step 1 WWW db in a ge - Log value index Index of pages Numeric Value Step 2 Exact Term in... Query Filter- WWW ...

Ranking external content on online social networks

In one embodiment, a social-networking system may access an enhanced search index of an online social network. The enhanced search index may include data from a social graph having a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, where the nodes comprise a plurality of internal nodes corresponding to entities associated with the online social network, and a plurality of external nodes corresponding to objects associated with a third-party system. The social-networking system may then search the enhanced search index in response to a query received from a user to identify objects that substantially match the query. Each identified object may be scored by the social-networking system based at least in part on a connectivity of the corresponding external node to the one or more internal nodes. In response to the query, the social-networking system may send a search-results page referencing objects based on their scores.

EXTENSIBLE SCAN RULES (AKA "XRULES")

PERSONALIZED SEARCHABLE LIBRARY BASED ON USER OWNERSHIP

A system and method for preparing and searching a user-personalized library (172) of content includes preparing a general library comprised of images of pages of content and electronically-searchable text corresponding to the text in the page images (174), which is then personalized by receiving from the user a selection of the content to include in the user~s personalized library. Full text searching of the content in the user~s personalized library may be enabled. Page images in the personalized library containing text that match the user~s search terms are provided to the user for display (176). Highlighting of search terms in page images and access rules that act to limit the viewing of content are further provided. Methods and apparatus of the invention also enable users to request access to one or more electronic images of pages in a physical text.

ROUTING QUERIES TO INFORMATION SOURCES AND SORTING AND FILTERING QUERY RESULTS

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING USE OF A SELECTION GUIDE

A system and method functions to automatically invoke a selection guide when the search term(s) provided in a freeform search query are determined to be associated with a category of item for which a selection guide will provide the most efficient means for the user to locate items of interest.

QUERY REVISION USING KNOWN HIGHLY-RANKED QUERIES

... ²²²An information retrieval system includes a query revision architecture ²providing one or more query revisers, each of which implements a query ²revision strategy. A query rank reviser suggests known highly-ranked queries ²as revisions to a first query by initially assigning a rank to all queries, ²and identifying a set of known highly-ranked queries (KHRQ). Queries with a ²strong probability of being revised to a KHRQ are identified as nearby queries ²(NQ). Alternative queries that are KHRQs are provided as candidate revisions ²for a given query. For alternative queries that are NQs, the corresponding ²known highly-ranked queries are provided as candidate revisions.² ...

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTING WEB DATA

An apparatus for providing an analysis of attitudes expressed in web content, comprising: a collector for collecting attitude-data in relation to a predetermined subject from one or more pre-selected web site, the attitude- data containing attitudes in relation to the predetermined subject; a processor, associated with the collector, for processing the attitude data so as to generate an attitude analysis; and an outputter, associated with the processor, for outputting the attitude analysis, thereby to provide an indication of attitudes being expressed in the web content in relation to the predetermined subject.

METHOD OF OBTAINING DATA FROM AN INFORMATION NETWORK

A user of an information network (Fig 1) is provided with information contained within at least one of plurality of network sites (24) in view of a user search criteria by searching a database (20) that is populated with a plurality of other search criteria provided by other network users and a plurality of search strategies. Each of the search strategies includes information regarding network sites likely to contain information relevant to the other search criteria. The other search criteria within the database are linked with the search strategies. At least one search strategy is selected from the database based upon the user's search criteria. The search strategy is executed and the results are provided to the user in one embodiment, users can employ software agents (22) to assist in searching, collecting and reporting on data in accordance with the user's specified criteria.

ENHANCED SEARCHING USING A THESAURUS

A method of providing enhanced on-line computer searching capabilities comprises: (a) forming a thesaurus database including first core concept terms and a series of secondary related terms; (b) providing a user interface to said database for selection of first core concept terms by a user; (c) carrying out a search for information relating to the core concept terms and to the secondary related terms; and (d) returning the results of the search to the user.

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTING, ANALYZING, STORING, COMPARING AND REPORTING ON DATA STORED IN WEB AND/OR OTHER NETWORK REPOSITORIES AND APPARATUS TO DETECT, PREVENT AND OBFUSCATE INFORMATION REMOVAL FROM INFORMATION SERVERS

RECOMBINASE POLYMERASE AMPLIFICATION

This disclosure describes three related novel methods for Recombinase- Polymerase Amplification (RPA) of a target DNA that exploit the properties of the bacterial RecA and related proteins, to invade double-stranded DNA with single stranded homologous DNA permitting sequence specific priming of DNA polymerase reactions. The disclosed method has the advantage of not requiring tehrmocycling or thermophilic enzymes. Further, the improved processivity of the dislosed methods allow amplification of DNA up to hundreds of megabases in length.

VARIABLE USER INTERFACE BASED ON DOCUMENT ACCESS PRIVILEGES

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING THE RANKING OF NEWS ARTICLES

A system ranks results. The system may receive a list of links. The system may identify a source with which each of the links is associated and rank the list of links based at least in part on a quality of the identified sources.

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A SET OF SEARCH TERMS

A method and system for providing a set of search terms in response to a user input (110) are disclosed. A first set of search terms is selected from a master set of search terms based upon a match between the input and the search terms or based upon a predefined associated between the input and the search terms (120). A second set of search terms is selected from the first set of search terms in response to a value score that is established for each of the search terms (130). The value score is selected based at least in part upon the amount of revenue that each search term generates for the system's operator.

SYSTEM FOR NETWORK ADDRESSING

A system relating to distributing content objects to a client computer. One system includes a server, a first content cache, a second content cache and a preference list. The first server is at a first address and the second server is at a second address. The server includes a content object that is copied to the first and second content caches. Originating from a client computer, the preference list includes at least one of the first and second addresses. A multiple address system provides for metadata to be combined with a first location for an object. A port identifier can be added to the address to allow a desired port to be referenced. The port identifier allows a predetermined port to be addressed in response to an inquiry.

METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR NETWORK DESIGN, ANALYSIS, AND OPTIMIZATION

Provided are a method, system, and program for rendering information on network infrastructure. A selection of customer sites is received and a database is queried to determine geographical locations of the selected network sites. A graphical user interface is rendered including representations of the selected customer sites in a map at the geographical location of the selected sites in the map. Selection is received of at least one network service provider (NSP). The database is queried to determine network infrastructure of the selected NSP and geographical locations of the determined network infrastructure. Representations are rendered of the determined network infrastructure in a map at the determined geographical locations of the determined network infrastructure to render a visualization of the geographical locations of the selected customer sites and network infrastructure of the selected at least one NSP in the map.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A RESPONSE TO A SEARCH QUERY

A system receives a request to search an electronic catalog of a vendor which specifies a query term. The query term is used to search an electronic catalog of a third party. The results obtained by searching the electronic catalog of the third party are parsed to uncover a keyword recognized by a search engine associated with the electronic catalog of the vendor. The uncovered keyword is then used in the search engine associated with the electronic catalog of the vendor to locate one or more items in the electronic catalog of the vendor. Items located in this manner are the search results responsive to the query term.

PROVIDING A USER INTERFACE WITH SEARCH QUERY BROADENING

A system (10) and method (60) for providing a user interface (37) with search query broadening is presented. A query (40) defining a search executable on potentially retrievable information (22) is accepted. The query (40) is parsed. A broadened query (40) is provided. At least one of the broadened query (40) and results of a search (52) executed on the broadened query (40) is presented.

AN INDEXING SYSTEM AND METHOD

A method for generating an index of data available from a server, including processing data on the server to access data items for a central index, the data items including network addresses and terms, compiling an index file including the data items, and transmitting the index file to the central index. The processing may include locating database query statements in the data, and the data items then include input tuples for the statements. The index is accessible from servers, and includes page entries including a program address for a program for generating a dynamic page and input tuples for submission to the program to generate the page, and search entries identifying the dynamic pages and identifying the tuples corresponding to search terms. A search engine operable on the index, is able to access the search entries to identify dynamic pages corresponding to search terms of a search query, and access the page entries to generate addresses for the dynamic pages identified, the addresses ...

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL USING ENHANCED DOCUMENT VECTORS

An information retrieval system includes an enhanced document vector module to generate enhanced document vectors representative of documents in a collection. The enhanced document vectors include text- and non-text components. The non-text components may include the location, in-links, and/or out-links in hypertext documents and attributes of the documents, e.g., size, create-date, and response-time. A processor uses the enhanced document vectors to perform an information retrieval operation, such as a clustering or classification operation.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING USAGE OF A WEB SITE USING PROXIMAL CUES

Techniques are provided for predicting the usage of a document collection given proximal cue information in the documents, a starting point and the user's information needs. A document collection topology matrix is created indicating links between document content portions. The link entry documents are analyzed for proximal cue words based on link URL, surrounding text and title. For image links, the connected to document information may also be used. Proximal cue words are added to a matrix relating proximal cue words and links. The proximal scent matrix indicates a similarity between the user's information need and the proximal cue word matrix. A distal scent information matrix is also calculated using distal document information and combined with the proximal scent matrix. Spreading activation is then applied to the resulting matrix using the starting location for a requested number of iterations and resulting in a predicted usage of the document collection.

A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE TO A DATABASE

A system and method for providing a natural language interface to a database or the Internet. The method provides a response from a database to a natural language query. The method comprises receiving a user query, extracting key data from the user query, submitting the extracted key data to a data base search engine to retrieve a top n pages from the data base, processing of the top n pages through a natural language dialog engine and providing a response based on processing the top n pages.

HOST-BASED INTELLIGENT RESULTS RELATED TO A CHARACTER STREAM

Information may be presented to a user by using a first application to receive a character stream of one or more noncompletion characters. The noncompletion characters indicate that additional characters may be received. The character stream is exchanged with a host that analyzes the character stream to generate results that are responsive to the user's predicted interest. Results are received and displayed so that the user may select one of the results to launch a code segment related to the selected result.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PLACE AND PRICE PROTECTION IN A SEARCH RESULT LIST GENERATED BY A COMPUTER NETWORK SEARCH ENGINE

A method and apparatus for managing search listings in a search database include storing one or more search listings for an advertiser. Each search listing includes an associated search term. The system receives from the advertiser identification information for a search listing and a desired rank for the identified search listing, a maximum cost per click for the search listing, or both. The system stores the desired rank and/or maximum cost per click for the search listing. The system then determines a cost per click for the identified search listing based on the desired rank and other search listings which include the search term associated with the identified search listing.

MORE EFFICIENT DATABASE RESEARCH SYSTEM

A method for searching, sorting, and displaying database search results to identify and highlight important or authoritative records. The invention is applied to legal research, permitting users to find authoritative documents that are missed by standard search mechanisms and to sort search results to more efficiently find the most important records. An apparatus and method employing a citation analysis algorithm to identify authoritative records. The apparatus and method simultaneously display the full text of a record, as well as the complete search result list in a side panel, allowing the user to resort to search results on the fly. The apparatus empowers users to sort search results in a variety of ways, either before the search or within the list of results, to expedite review. The apparatus also identifies records from prior search results and that have been reviewed previously by marking them as 'viewed' links.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING PREVALENCE OF DIGITAL CONTENT ON THE WORLD-WIDE-WEB

The present invention is a system, method, and computer program product for tracking and measuring digital content that is distributed on a computer network such as the Internet (100). The system collects online advertisement data, analyzes the data, and uses the data to calculate measurements of the prevalence of those advertisements. The system processes raw traffic data by cleansing and summarizing the traffic data prior to storing the processed data in a database (200). An advertisement sampling system (220) uses site selection and definition criteria and a probe map (524) to retrieve Web pages from the Internet (100), extract advertisements from those Web pages, classify each advertisement, and store the data in a database (200). A statistical summarization system accesses the processed raw traffic data and the advertisement data in the database (200) to calculate advertising prevalence statistics including the advertising frequency, impressions, and spending.

LOGO OR IMAGE BASED SEARCH ENGINE FOR PRESENTING SEARCH RESULTS

The present invention relates to a search engine which, in response to a search query, generates links to a set of documents relevant to the search query submitted by a user, associating an identifying logo for each of the generated links in the set of documents; and returning the generated links and the associated identifying logos to the user. An ordering component of the search engine embeds a hyperlink within the identifying logo or visual identifier for each of the generated links that are presented to the user, these logos or identifiers being miniaturized ("thumbnail") renderings, that are ordered and presented in a visually concise manner on a singular document or page, for easy perusal by the user.

SERVING ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON CONTENT

Advertisers (110) are permitted to put targeted ads on page on the web (or some other document of any media type) (Figure 1). The present invention may do so by (i) obtaining content that includes available spots for ads (120), (ii) determining ads relevant to content, and/or (iii) combining content with ads determined to be relevant to the content.

LANDMARK CASE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD

... ²²²A landmark case identification system and method in which the user is ²presented with a set of the most relevant documents on a selected topic. This ²set, which is dynamic and asserted to be inclusive at any point in time, is ²presented to the user in a Virtual Digest and initially sorted by court/date ²order. The user has an option to resort the answer set using a Frequently ²Cited sort option, which causes the system to dynamically analyze the answer ²set for references between the documents. Landmark cases are identified by ²their peers in the domain as they will be referenced and relied upon most ²often. The user is presented with the resorted answer set, and information ²detailing how many other cases in the domain referenced them is now included.² ...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT PARALLEL SEARCHING

Systems and methods are provided for conducting intelligent parallel searches of data sources. A search engine receives a request to access target data that is stored in at least one of multiple data sources. Each data source has a candidate index. The search engine extracts inquiry parameters from the request. The inquiry parameters corresponds to sub-indices of respective general indices. Each general index includes an index of relationships between data from at least two of the data sources. Each sub-index includes a subset of the respective general index. The search engine performs parallel searches of the general indices common to the data sources. Each parallel search includes searching the sub-indices based on corresponding inquiry parameters for the sub-indices. The search engine performs additional parallel searches of the candidate indices based on results of the parallel searches. The search engine extracts an output from results of the additional parallel searches.

COMPUTER NETWORK FOR WWW SERVER DATA ACCESS OVER INTERNET

A World Wide Web browser makes requests to web servers on a network which receive and fulfill requests as an agent of the browser client, organizing distributed sub-agents as distributed integration solution (DIS) servers on an intranet network supporting the web server which also has an access agent servers accessible over the Internet. DIS servers execute selected capsule objects which perform programmable functions upon a received command from a web server control program agent for retrieving, from a database gateway coupled to a plurality of database resources upon a single request made from a Hypertext document, requested information from multiple data bases located at different types of databases geograhically dispersed, performing calculations, formatting and other services prior to reporting to the web browser or to other locations, in a selected format, as in a display, fax, printer, and to customer installations or to TV video subscribers, with account tracking.

A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINDING INFORMATION IN A DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION SYSTEM USING QUERY LEARNING AND META SEARCH

An information retrieval system finds information in a (DIS) Distributed Information System, {the Internet} using query learning and meta search (figure 2) for adding documents to resource directories contained in the DIS. A selection means (figure 4; yes/no link) generates training data characterized as positive and negative examples of a particular class of data residing in the DIS. A learning means (figure 4; learn link) generates from the training data at least one query that can be submitted to any one of a plurality of search engines for searching the DIS to find "new" items of the particular class. An evaluation means (figure 4; review previous link) determines and verifies that the new item(s) is a new subset of the particular class and adds or updates the particular class in the resource directory.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING RESOURCES ON A NETWORK USING RESOURCE EVALUATIONS DERIVED FROM ELECTRONIC MESSAGES

Resources are located on a network (1507) by searching a database (1506) including resource evaluation information obtained from electronic messages. Electronic messages having information evaluating network resources such as files, websites, and utilities are identified. Evaluation information including the network address of the evaluated resource is stored in the database (1506). Resource information from the resource itself is also stored. A useful and manageable number of evaluated resource titles responsive to a user request for information are presented to the user (1510). The user can browse evaluation information and fetch the resource.

A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPORTING INFORMATION FROM A NETWORK RESOURCE

Information stored at a resource remotely located across a network is automatically imported according to pre-defined selection criteria, formatted in a form usable by a local processing resource, stored in the formatted form, and provided to the local processing resource for use by it. In one embodiment, a mailing list manager has an import module coupled to a browser. The import module receives a set of user-defined information selection criteria. The import module commands the browser to establish a network connection to a remote network resource containing desired information. When the connection is established, the browser requests information from the remote network resource according to the selection criteria. Information received from the network resource is stripped of unnecessary information, formatted for use by the mailing list manager and stored in a database maintained by the mailing list manager. In a preferred embodiment, the network resource is a Web server with a search ...

Method for creating data extracts from single or multiple data sources and data user pool, involves carrying out profiling and relevance weighting by evaluating available data by indexing in data user pool

The method involves carrying out a profiling and relevance weighting by evaluating the available data by indexing in a data user pool. The competence circles (3) are formed by cross-linking between natural or legal persons with evaluable profiles. The profiling and relevance weighting takes place by filter formed by one or multiple competence circles or by a synchronization of the data to obtain supply proposal (9) relevant for one or multiple persons or competence circles of persons.

Method for performing semantic search in e.g. political ontology, based on text segment in semantic web, involves designing pattern in document, and performing semantic search in ontology by application based on designed pattern

The method involves designing a pattern (11) i.e. text segment in a document (1) e.g. text document in any format, by a user e.g. member of economic development, where the pattern is designed by using a pointer e.g. mouse. Semantic search is performed in ontology e.g. political ontology (22) by an application based on the designed pattern. Semantic search result is presented to the user by a user interface. An independent claim is also included for a semantic search system comprising a user interface.

Method of analysis of relative to a physical or legal person and present informative contents on a net data transmission for the optimization of the answer right.

La presente invenzione è relativa ad un metodo (1) di analisi di contenuti informativi presenti sul World Wide Web che comprende le fasi di ricercare e selezionare sul World Wide Web almeno un contenuto informativo relativo e/o correlato ad un soggetto di interesse. Il metodo prevede inoltre di valutare il contenuto informativo in modo automatico tramite almeno un algoritmo di calcolo, per ottenere un valore per il parametro di valutazione del contenuto informativo e di confrontare il valore con almeno un rispettivo intervallo di accettabilità. Il metodo prevede quindi di memorizzare il contenuto informativo o informazioni correlate alla sua posizione sulla rete telematica, su una memoria, nel caso in cui il valore del parametro risulti al di fuori dell’intervallo di accettabilità. Infine, il metodo comprende la fase di mettere a disposizione il contenuto informativo, o informazioni relative alla posizione del contenuto informativo sulla rete telematica, per una valutazione dello stesso ...

Method of management of informative contents presents on a net data transmission, and shaped software in order to put into effect it, in order to optimize the notification of availability of an retort.

La presente invenzione è relativa ad un metodo di gestione di contenuti informativi presenti su una rete telematica, ad esempio sul World Wide Web, comprendente le fasi di ricercare contenuti informativi di interesse su una rete telematica, in particolare per mezzo di un motore di ricerca, i contenuti informativi di interesse essendo relativi ad un soggetto di interesse ed individuare uno o più link o indirizzi di riferimento di detta rete telematica correlati a detti contenuti informativi di interesse ed a detto soggetto di interesse. Il metodo prevede di contattare uno o più database e/o server e/o service provider siti web per verificare la eventuale presenza e/o disponibilità di un contenuto informativo addizionale correlato ad almeno uno di detti link o indirizzi di riferimento della rete telematica, detto contenuto informativo addizionale essendo correlato al contenuto informativo di interesse almeno da uno o più parametri e/o almeno da una o più informazioni sensibili. In caso di ...

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ACCESS TO SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND SERVICES ON WEB

СПОСОБ ВВОДА И ПОИСКА ИНФОРМАЦИИ ОБ ОБЪЕКТЕ В УДАЛЕННОЙ БАЗЕ ДАННЫХ

Способ включает передачу при помощи сети глобальной системы мобильной связи через оборудование оператора сотовой связи и при помощи сети Интернет на сервер от мобильного терминала связи сообщения с идентификатором объекта. В качестве сообщения с идентификатором объекта, передаваемым от мобильного терминала связи, используют по меньшей мере одно слово. При поиске идентификатора объекта в базе данных сервера тот сопоставляет слово с доменными именами. При определении пользователем мобильного терминала связи доменного имени сервер передает ему телефонный номер абонента. Мобильный терминал связи инициализирует связь для этого телефонного номера, осуществляя голосовое соединение с телефонным номером абонента. Способ позволяет расширить функциональные возможности, ускорить поиск, уменьшить количество передаваемой информации, снизить нагрузку на телекоммуникационные сети и их оборудование.

СПОСОБ ВВОДА И ПОИСКА ИНФОРМАЦИИ ОБ ОБЪЕКТЕ В УДАЛЕННОЙ БАЗЕ ДАННЫХ

Способ включает передачу при помощи сети глобальной системы мобильной связи через оборудование оператора сотовой связи и при помощи сети Интернет на сервер от мобильного терминала связи сообщения с идентификатором объекта. В качестве сообщения с идентификатором объекта передаваемым or мобильного терминала связи используют, по меньшей мере, одно слово. При поиске идентификатора объекта в базе данных сервера тот сопоставляет слово с доменными именами. При определении пользователем мобильного терминала связи доменного имени сервер передает ему телефонный номер абонента. Мобильный терминал связи инициализирует связь для этого телефонного номера, осуществляя голосовое соединение с телефонным номером абонента. Способ позволяет расширить функциональные возможности, ускорить поиск, уменьшить количество передаваемой информации, снизить нагрузку на телекоммуникационные сети и их оборудование.

СПОСОБ И СИСТЕМА ДЛЯ АЛЬТЕРНАТИВНЫХ ИДЕНТИФИКАТОРОВ АДРЕСОВ И РЕСУРСОВ ИНТЕРНЕТ

Способ и система для использования альтернативных идентификаторов ресурсов вместо стандартных идентификаторов ресурсов. Изобретение преобразует альтернативный идентификатор ресурса в стандартный идентификатор ресурса, используя программные средства для немедленной обработки. Затем с использованием стандартных идентификаторов ресурсов обычным образом обеспечивается доступ к ресурсам в сети Интернет, которые отображаются пользователю.

COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR JOINING AND PRESENTATION MUCH FORMAT INFORMATION

METHOD OF PUBLICATION, SEARCH, COLLECTION AND INFORMATION EXCHANGE IN GLOBAL AND LOCAL NETWORKS

METHOD FOR PROMOTION OF CONTENT

Information processing device, information processing method, and information processing program

The purpose of the invention is to allow saleable goods to be displayed in a table sorted by variations in attributes. An information processing device determines whether there are two or more attribute values for each attribute field pertaining to a group of saleable goods identified on the basis of a user operation pertaining to a saleable good search. The information processing device also associates each attribute field determined to have two or more attribute values with a table, a row, or a column. For each cell, the information processing device identifies a saleable good having the attribute indicated by the attribute value corresponding to that cell from among the group of saleable goods. The information processing device displays a table with cells containing display information indicating the identified saleable goods.

Co-selected image classification

Method for searching and analying information in data networks

Method for displaying microblog message, microblog terminal and microblog server side

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method for displaying a microblog message; the method comprises the steps of sending a group list acquisition request to a microblog server side by a microblog terminal, receiving and displaying a group list of the user returned by the microblog sever side when an inquiring operation is executed by the user on the group list; writing the name of the selected microblog group in a new message display page by the microblog terminal when any one microblog group is selected by the user in the group list, sending a message list acquisition request to the microblog server side, receiving a message list of the selected microblog group returned by the microblog server side, and displaying the message list in the new message display page. The embodiment of the invention further discloses a microblog terminal and a microblog server side. According to the invention, the message on the microblog homepage can be effectively organized and displayed, so that ...

System and method for controlling permissions for selected recipients by owners of data

Search result ordering method, search result ordering equipment, searing method and searching equipment

The invention discloses a search result ordering method, search result ordering equipment, a searching method and searching equipment, and aims to solve the problem that search results searched according to long-tail search keywords may be inaccurately ordered during ordering. The search result ordering method includes: determining keywords units related to search keywords; for every search result searched according to the search keywords, from a pre-stored corresponding correlation, respectively determining all first correlation values simultaneously corresponding to the search results searched according to the search keywords and the determined keywords units, respectively determining a second correlation value used for measuring correlation between the search keywords and every determined keyword unit; determining ordering fraction values for the search results; and according to the ordering fraction value of every search result, determining ordering information for instructing to order ...

Information processing apparatus, information processing method

Method and server for monitoring media exposure

Storage device, data processing method, and storage system

Web service interrogation method and apparatus

A web service interrogation method comprises receiving natural language request data at a processor. The processor parses the request data. A data structure comprising a directory of web service resources is interrogated based upon the parsed input data. Fields within a web service identified from said data structure are matched to the parsed input data. Service data records corresponding to at least some of said webs service resources that fulfill a matching criteria to the request data are aggregated. The service data is output to a user. A web service interrogation apparatus is also disclosed.

Intelligent search, intelligent files system and automatic intelligent assistant

Method and apparatus for detecting pictures of suspected infringing products

Content providing method of content providing system and electronic apparatus

Modifying search results based on dismissal action associated with one or more of the search results

Method and system for queuing uncalled web based on path

The present invention provides method and system of queuing un-accessed web pages based on route during the world wide web processing course. All the routes from the "seed" URL to accessed relevant web pages are marked as "optimized route set", while the routes from the "seed" URL to un-accessed web pages are marked as "partial route set". All the access web pages are classified and marked with their attributive classes. Some training-statistics model is used to characterize the common route mode of routes in the "optimized route set"; the statistics model is used in estimating the "partial route set" and the estimation results are used in queuing all the un-accessed web pages.

Method for searching products intelligently based on analysis of customer's purchasing behavior and system thereby

A system for searching products intelligently based on analysis of customer's purchasing behavior includes a search engine database, a product database configured to store a predetermined number of keyword information on each product, an input/output unit configured to receive keywords, product selection or order information, and output search results, a search unit configured to generate search results of the search engine database and the product database from the keywords, and a related keyword information update unit configured to update related keyword information of the product database depending on the product selection or the order information.

Method and system for intelligent processing of electronic information

Information adjusting method and device

Variably controlling access to content

A software module is presented that enables a person to determine the relevance of a document while preventing the person from making a copy of the entire document. In one embodiment, this is accomplished by programmatically controlling which portions of a document will be presented to a user and which portions will not be presented to the user. In one embodiment, the software module is used in conjunction with a search engine to present a document search result.

METHOD FOR DETECTING INTRUSIONS UNSOLICITED IN AN INFORMATION NETWORK, DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND CORRESPONDING STORAGE MEANS

A METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA FOR SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS

METROLOGY SYSTEM OF AIR QUALITY

METHOD FOR DISCOVERING A COLLECTION OF SOURCES DEFINING WEB PAGES

Le procédé de découverte d'un ensemble de sources définissant des pages WEB comprend : • une définition d'un profil utilisateur comprenant : ○ une liste d'adresses URL définissant chacune une graine; ○ un index de profil ; • une collecte d'un ensemble de données de chaque page désignée par une URL de la graine, la collecte comprenant : ○ une définition d'un ensemble de mots clefs ; ○ une attribution d'au moins un indice de pertinence ; ○ une indexation de chaque mot clef dans l'index de profil ; • une collecte des URL de chaque page WEB explorée ; • une attribution d'un niveau de pertinence à chaque page collectée; • un calcul d'un indice de priorité d'exploration de chaque URL; • une création d'une liste ordonnée d'URL selon leur indice de priorité d'exploration ; • un choix d'une nouvelle URL pour explorer automatiquement une nouvelle page WEB.

Search motor for location of persons and associated data within an online commercial directory or similar, whereby a number of different search classifications can be used in searching

Système de moteur de recherche électronique comportant : un moyen de stockage de données personnelles (11), un moyen de classement des personnes (19) pour classer des personnes dans une pluralité de rubriques de classement (CR), un moyen d'entrée de requête comportant un moyen de sélection de rubrique, un moyen de traitement pour traiter ladite requête de recherche, un moyen d'affichage, un moyen de sélection de réponse pour sélectionner une donnée de réponse, un moyen de stockage de données d'objet (12) contenant, pour chaque objet (CO) d'une pluralité de catalogues, des données descriptives relatives audit objet (DO), un premier moyen de classement des objets (13) pour classer les objets de chaque catalogue dans des catégories de classement propres audit catalogue, un deuxième moyen de classement des objets (20) pour classer lesdits objets dans ladite pluralité de rubriques de classement.

IDENTIFYING AN INFORMATION SOURCE

L'identification d'une source d'information (S2-S4) qui a produit un contenu (D2-D4) accessible par au moins une base de données (BD) permet de connaître un niveau d'anticipation que possède cette source par rapport à d'autres sources qui ont produit ultérieurement d'autres contenus. Un suivi ultérieur d'une source qui a montré un niveau d'anticipation élevé, peut permettre d'accéder à une nouvelle information avant que cette information ait été largement répétée, reprise ou réutilisée.

PROCESS AND FAST DEVICE OF SUPPLY Of INFORMATION

Le procédé de fourniture rapide d'information pertinente comporte : - une étape de création de groupes de sources d'information accessibles sur un réseau, - une étape (305) de saisie d'au moins un mot-clé principal par un utilisateur, - une étape (310) de recherche de pages dans lesdites sources d'information et comportant au moins un mot associé à un dit mot-clé principal, - une étape de groupement des résultats de la recherche en fonction des groupes de sources d'informations où les résultats sont obtenus, - une étape (315) de hiérarchisation des résultats de la recherche, dans chaque groupe de résultats correspondant aux différents groupes de sources d'information et - une étape (325) d'affichage séparé de chaque groupe de résultats.

METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL NETWORK SITE, SITE NETWORK OBTAINED BY SAID METHOD, AND METHOD FOR NAVIGATING WITHIN/FROM A NETWORK SITE

L'invention vise à proposer un procédé de fabrication de sites réseau permettant une navigation fluide ne nécessitant qu'un moyen de direction d'un avatar, ainsi qu'une sécurisation d'accès accrue. Plus précisément, la présente invention a pour objet un site réseau en trois dimensions comprenant : • une adresse réseau ; • au moins un espace en trois dimensions ; • au moins un objet de navigation disposé à une position déterminée ; • au moins un objet mobile et commandable dans ledit espace apte à activer l'objet de navigation lorsqu'il est positionné de manière sécante par rapport à l'objet de navigation.

PROCESS Of IMPROVEMENT OF the REFERENCING Of an INTERNET SITE SOURCE BY an SEARCH ENGINE GENERAL PRACTITIONER

L'invention concerne un procédé d'amélioration du classement d'un Site Internet Source par un Moteur de Recherche Généraliste, comprenant les étapes suivantes : - analyse (10) du contenu du Site Internet Source pour en extraire des mots-clés, - sélection (12) d'un ensemble de mots-clés pertinents parmi les mots-clés extraits, - génération (16) d'une Page d'Accueil d'Indexes de recherche listant les mots-clés sélectionnés, chaque mot-clé de la page formant un lien hypertexte vers une Page d'Indexes de résultats associée au mot-clé, chaque Page d'Indexes de résultats comprenant une liste de liens hypertextes vers des contenus pertinents du Site Internet Source par rapport au mot-clé, - intégration (22) de la Page d'Accueil d'Indexes de recherche dans le Site Internet Source.

METHOD FOR SEARCHING A DATABASE

La présente invention se rapporte à un procédé de recherche dans une base de données contenant au moins un ensemble d'objets liés chacun à au moins un descripteur, la recherche étant effectuée par un moteur de recherche utilisant au moins un paramètre obtenu à partir d'au moins une requête d'un utilisateur en vue de retourner au moins un résultat, ledit procédé de recherche étant caractérisé en ce que la requête comprend une série d'au moins un élément (10, 11, 12, 13) de recherche obtenue par ajout (15) d'élément à ladite série par l'utilisateur, l'étape d'ajout pouvant être répétée jusqu'à ce qu'une instruction de recherche soit donnée.

SYSTEM, PROCESS, COMPUTER AND Management tools Of BIDDING, AND COMPUTER SUPPORT Of SUCH a TOOL

L'invention concerne la gestion d'enchères. Elle se rapporte à un système qui permet à un promoteur d'un site commercial (14) de la toile (20) de remettre à jour des informations relatives à un listage de recherche dans une liste de résultats de recherche créée par un moteur de recherche sur Internet. Un système d'ordinateur (22) a une base de données (38) contenant des enregistrements de compte et des listages de recherche qui comprennent un terme de recherche à mot-clé, une enchère modifiable, une adresse URL, une description, et un titre, un solde de compte, et des codes de programmation en langage extensible à balises (XML) permettant l'addition d'un listage de recherche, le traitement de requêtes de recherche, et la création d'une liste de résultats de recherche. Application aux services de recherche sur Internet.

ITEM CLASSIFICATION METHOD AND SELECTION SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC SOLICITATION

La présente demande divulgue un système pour indexer efficacement un contenu publicitaire en se servant d'intelligence artificielle pour inférer et générer des groupements de catégorie thématiques pertinents pour ledit contenu. Ces groupements sont en outre appariés aux données de profil de client recueillies et sont combinées afin de déployer des sollicitations par médias personnalisés par moyen d'analyse prédictive, abordant ainsi le problème posé par des sollicitations de masse lesquelles sont souvent inefficaces qui souvent ciblent mal - et donc ratent - leur public visé.

METHOD FOR UPDATING KEYWORD DATABASE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM USING SAME

The present invention relates to a method for updating a keyword database, and more particularly, to a method and system for generating and updating a keyword for a predetermined content search. The method includes a step of generating target information and a step of storing a keyword set. It is possible to effectively search contents. COPYRIGHT KIPO 2018 (100) Search object additional information generation module (300) Search word/renewal module (400) Search word receiving module (500) Search world analysis module (600) Input part (AA) Renewal (BB) Content analysis (CC) Internal/external network (DD) Search content (EE) Collect a secondary keyword (S100) Initial database building step (S110) Target subject additional information generation step (S120) Primary keyword collection step (S130/S226) Provide a keyword rating (S140/S228) Provide keyword properties (S150) Store a keyword ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SEARCH SERVICE BASED ON EXPERT KNOWLEDGE

The present invention relates to a system and a method for providing a search service based on expert knowledge. To this end, the system includes: a video call server setting an image channel; a video call data storage server storing video call data; a voice recognition server converting voice data into a character string; a content storage server extracting a keyword from the character string and building a content DB; and a search server allowing a directed move to an URL corresponding to a selected keyword, thereby delivering information fast and accurately. COPYRIGHT KIPO 2016 (AA) Knowledge-based search system ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING ILLEGAL CONTENT

According to the present invention, a system and a method for searching illegal content search illegal distribution content such as webtoons, sound sources, books, and videos in which web information using a changed keyword is included and protect copyright holders and juveniles. The system for searching illegal content of the present invention comprises a crawling server searching a plurality of web sites for searching the illegal content which is illegally copied and distributed from the plurality of web sites. COPYRIGHT KIPO 2017 (100) Website (110) Web information (200) Management server (300) Search site (400) Client ...

METHOD FOR SELECTING SEARCH RESULT BASED ON ACR AND BIDDING PRICE OF EACH SEARCH RESULT, AND SEARCH SYSTEM FOR EXECUTING THE SAME

PURPOSE: A method for offering a search service and a search system for executing the same are provided to select a search result by considering a bidding price and an ACR(Average Click Rate) of the search result, and guarantee a quality of the search result offered to each keyword AD(ADvertisement) service by selecting the search result based on the bidding price and the ACR. CONSTITUTION: A database manager(303) keeps a search result database(301) storing a keyword, the search result associated with the keyword, and the bidding price, a total click number, the ACR, and an advertiser ID associated with the search result. A search result selector(305) selects the specific number of search results having high ranked ACR among the search results associated with the keyword by referring to the search result database in case that a search request including the keyword is received from a user through a user input part(304). A search result list provider(306) generates and provides a search result ...

Ｍ２Ｍ 디바이스들의 크롤링

... 다양한 예시적인 실시예들에 따르면, M2M 크롤러 서비스는 M2M 디바이스들이 웹 크롤러들에 의해 효율적으로 그리고 효과적으로 크롤링될 수 있게 하는 능력들을 지원할 수 있다. 그 결과, M2M 디바이스들은 웹 검색 엔진들에 의해 그리고 그에 따라 웹 검색 엔진들을 사용하는 웹 사용자들에 의해 인덱싱되고 검색될 수 있다. 따라서, 본원에 설명된 M2M 크롤러 서비스는 M2M 디바이스들이 사물 인터넷/사물 웹으로 통합되는 것을 가능하게 할 수 있다.

로컬화된 검색 기능을 제공하는 사용자 인터페이스

... 검색 엔진 브라우저와 함께 동작하여, 특정 관심 영역들에 관련되는 로컬화된(localized) 정보를 제시하는, 사용자 인터페이스가 개시된다. 검색 질의의 문자들이 브라우저로 입력되고 있는 동안, 그것들은 각각의 정보 도메인들과 연관되는 하나 이상의 서버에 제공된다. 도메인들 내의 정보가 입력되고 있는 검색 질의에 대응하는 경우, 검색 엔진 브라우저에 의해 제공되는 임의의 입력에 더하여, 지시(indication)가 그 결과들의 사용자에게 제공된다. 사용자 인터페이스는 사용자가 결과들에 액세스하는 것을 가능하게 하여, 검색이 수행되기 전에도, 도메인들로부터 관심 대상일 수 있는 항목들에 대하여 빨리 알 수 있게 한다.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO COLLECT DISTRIBUTED USER INFORMATION FOR MEDIA IMPRESSIONS AND SEARCH TERMS

... 개시된 예들은 모바일 장치로부터의 정보를 모바일 장치 또는 모바일 장치의 사용자 중 적어도 하나를 식별하는 복수의 암호화된 식별자들로 디코딩하는 단계, 대응하는 데이터베이스 소유주들로 암호화된 식별자들 중 하나를 전송하는 단계, 대응하는 데이터베이스 소유주들로부터 암호화된 식별자들에 대응하는 복수의 사용자 정보를 수신하는 단계, 및 복수의 사용자 장보를 모바일 장치에 제시된 미디어에 대하여 로깅된 미디어 장치에서 수집된 검색어 또는 미디어 임프레션 중 적어도 하나와 연관시키는 단계를 포함한다.

검색창과 영상 표시창이 상호전환되는 검색 서비스 제공방법 및 이를 적용한 디스플레이 장치

... 검색 서비스 제공방법 및 이를 적용한 디스플레이 장치가 제공된다. 본 검색서비스 제공방법에 따르면, 인터넷 검색을 수행하는 검색창을 영상이 디스플레이되는 화면의 일부 영역에 디스플레이하고, 사용자의 특정 조작이 입력되면 검색창을 영상 표시창으로 전환할 수 있게 되어, 사용자는 검색창의 이용과 영상 시청을 쉽게 상호 전환하면서 이용할 수 있게 된다.

Identification of Electronic Content Significant to a User

Content that is significant to a user may be determined. An indication that a user finds content within a document significant may be received. In response to the received indication, the document may be analyzed to identify a set of topics associated with the content of the document. From the set of topics, a subset of topics responsible for the user finding the document significant may be identified. A user profile associated with the user may be updated based on the subset of topics. 1. A method for determining content that is significant to a user within a web page , the method comprising:electronically receiving an indication from a user that the user finds significant content that appears within a web page presently displayed to the user;only after receiving the indication, electronically analyzing, using at least one processor, the web page to identify a set of topics associated with the content that appears within the web page in response to the received indication;only after analyzing the web page to identify the set of topics, selecting, from the set of topics, a subset of topics that characterizes the content that the user found significant within the web page, the topics included within the set of topics that are not included within the subset of topics being topics that are associated with the content of the web page but that are deemed not to characterize the content that the user found significant within the web page; andupdating a user profile associated with the user based on the subset of topics.232-. (canceled) The present application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/839,767, filed on Jul. 20, 2010, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/538,383, filed on Oct. 3, 2006 now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,783,622, which claims the benefit of and priority to U.S. provisional application No. 60/820,879, filed on Jul. 31, 2006, and U.S. provisional application No. 60/820,033, filed Jul. 21, 2006. Each of the ...

System for Targeting Advertising Content to a Plurality of Mobile Communication Facilities

A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. 1. A system for targeting advertising content of a first or second sponsor to a plurality of mobile communication facilities , the system comprising one or more computers having computer readable mediums having stored thereon instructions which , when executed by one or more processors of the one or more computers , causes the system to perform the steps of:(a) receiving from an application or a web browser respective requests for advertising content corresponding to the plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality of mobile communication facilities includes a first type of mobile communication facility and a second type of mobile communication facility, wherein a rendering capability of the first type of mobile communication facility is different from a rendering capability of the second type of mobile communication facility;(b) receiving a user characteristic datum corresponding to the group of users;(c) selecting respective advertising ...

METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PROCESS A DATA SEARCH REQUEST

Example systems and methods of processing a data search request are presented. In one example, a data search request including a plurality of constraints is received. Each of the plurality of constraints is of one of a plurality of constraint types. At least one of the plurality of constraints of a first constraint type is expanded to one or more constraints of at least one other constraint type. A plurality of search definitions is formulated utilizing the plurality of constraints. Each of the plurality of search definitions includes a unique constraint set excluding at least one of the plurality of constraints. A plurality of searches is performed using the plurality of search definitions to generate a plurality of search results. Data item counts corresponding to the search definitions are calculated. The data item counts and the corresponding search definitions are communicated to a client machine. 1. A system comprising:at least one processor; and a query controller module to receive a data search request including a plurality of constraints, each of the plurality of constraints being of one of a plurality of constraint types;', 'a reduced constraint builder module to expand at least one of the plurality of constraints of a first constraint type to one or more constraints of at least one other constraint type, and to formulate a plurality of search definitions, each of the search definitions being formulated utilizing the plurality of constraints after expansion, each of the plurality of search definitions comprising a unique constraint set excluding at least one of the plurality of constraints after expansion; and', 'a search engine to perform a plurality of searches of a data source using the plurality of search definitions to generate a plurality of search results and to utilize the plurality of search results to calculate a plurality of counts of data items that respectively correspond to the plurality of search definitions;', 'the query controller module ...

Dynamic Search Service

Textual information processed by an application may be used to access data from one or more on-line data source (e.g., Wikipedia) which may be used to enhance the user experience or to improve user productivity from using the application. One such application may be a search service that accesses such data based on input data provided to the application. For example, the application may parse instant messages sent and received by a user to extract keywords, phrases or links, which are then used to retrieve information from a repository of data obtained form various data sources. In this manner, data related to the subject matters of the user's communication may be readily accessed by the user, if desired, in a convenient manner To deliver real time performance, the repository of data may be pre-processed (e.g., indexed) to facilitate information retrieval. 1. A method for enabling a dynamic search in an application that processes messages received from or sent to a user , comprising:providing a database that contains a collection of data records retrieved from a plurality of data sources;extracting from the messages in real time, as messages are received from the user or sent to the user, a plurality of keywords based on an analysis of the subject matters included in the messages;retrieving from the database data records based on the selected keywords or key phrases;assigning a score to each selected data record based on a scoring function;ranking the selected data records according their respective scores; andreporting a subset of the selected data records, the reported data records being included in the subset according to the ranking2. The method of claim 1 , wherein providing the database comprises:providing one or more data crawling programs running on a server on the wide area network, each data crawling program retrieving data from one or more of the data sources according to a predetermined schedule;processing the data retrieved from the data sources into ...

Method and System of Information Matching in Electronic Commerce Website

Techniques for sorting search results using user characteristic data are described. These techniques may include receiving a query from a user device. A search may be performed based on the query to obtain multiple results. User responses corresponding to the multiple results may be obtained and then grouped to determine multiple users based on similarities among the multiple users. Based on user responses associated with the multiple users, the multiple results may then be ranked.

HIERARCHICAL INFORMATION RETREIVAL AND BOOLEAN SEARCH STRINGS

A system for information retrieval from a collection of hypermedia data over a distributed network, including a data storage system that is a collection of hypermedia data which also has a number of hyperlinks to items of hypermedia content. Hyperlinks are each respectively associated with at least one code value generated based on the content of the respective hypermedia content. Includes an application that receives progressive user input and iteratively builds a user search code value according to the user input. 1. A system for information retrieval from a collection of hypermedia data over a distributed network comprising:a. at least one computer server hosting an information retrieval site and operatively connected to the distributed network;b. a data storage system residing upon computer readable media operatively connected to the at least one computer server, the data storage comprising the collection of hypermedia data, the collection comprising a plurality of hyperlinks to items of hypermedia content, wherein a plurality of the hyperlinks are each associated with at least one hypermedia content code value;c. at least one input/output device through which a searcher accesses the information retrieval site, inputs retrieval data and receives selected output; i. receive progressive user input and iteratively build a user search code value according to the user input;', 'ii. at least partially match the user search code value to at least a portion of the at least one hypermedia content code value for a plurality of hyperlinks to identify each such associated hyperlink to a particular information retrieval data set;', 'iii. display the particular information retrieval data set to the user., 'd. an application running on the at least one computer server, the server application adapted to2. A computer-implemented method for performing a semantic search , the method comprising:receiving one or more semantic identifiers that identify content that avoids at least ...

SELECTING AND PRESENTING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON DISTINCT TAXONOMIES

A search engine stores different taxonomies that each specifies categories and relationships between the categories. When the search engine receives a request having a search query, the search engine determines which taxonomy, if any, it should use to generate a search results page. The search engine bases this determination upon information provided to it in the request, in one embodiment. For example, the search engine might select a taxonomy based on the particular environment from which the search query originated. However, the search engine can select the taxonomy based on other information, such as a role of the user. Thus, a medical researcher and a financial analyst for a particular corporation could receive search results pages that were generated with appropriate taxonomies for each of them. 1. A method comprising:receiving a first search query that includes one or more first keywords and first information about a first origin of the first search query;based at least in part on the first information about the first origin of the first search query, selecting a first taxonomy of two or more distinct taxonomies, wherein each taxonomy of the two or more distinct taxonomies specifies categories and relationships between the categories;in response to receiving the first search query, generating a first set of search results specific to the selected first taxonomy;receiving a second search query that includes one or more second keywords and second information about a second origin of the second search query;based at least in part on the second information about the second origin of the second search query, selecting a second taxonomy of two or more distinct taxonomies;in response to receiving the second search query, generating a second set of search results specific to the selected second taxonomy;wherein the second origin is different than the first origin and the second taxonomy is different than the first taxonomy;wherein the method is performed by one or ...

Sentiment Analysis From Social Media Content

The sentiment engine includes a sentiment module configured to gather opinions or determine sentiment expressed in documents, a crawling module configured to crawl servers to obtain at least a subset of the documents or opinions from social media websites, a keyword module configured to extract keywords from documents, a filtering module configured to filter keywords and documents, and a classification module configured to classify documents, sentences, and/or keywords, a polarity prediction module configured to predict the polarity of a sentiment sentence, and a social media net promoter score (SNPS) configured to calculate a loyalty metric of users from social media websites. The functionality of these modules may be combined with one another or in addition to other modules. 1. A computer-implemented method for sentiment analysis from social media content , comprising:crawling, by a processor, a plurality of websites to obtain metadata from social media content;extracting, by a processor, the metadata from the social media content by identifying a polarity of the sentiment-bearing keywords in a sentence from social media content using a phase transition formula;determining at least one category corresponding to the at least one sentiment-bearing keyword of the sentence; anddetermining at least one sentiment corresponding to the at least one category based on the at least one sentiment-bearing keyword.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the extracting step comprises filtering the sentiment-bearing keywords with sentiment eliminators.3. The method claim 1 , wherein the extracting step comprises filtering the sentiment-bearing keywords by associating with a sentiment score.4. The method of claim 1 , wherein extracting step comprises extracting opinion bearing keywords from social media content; calculating a frequency, f, of the keyword in the plurality of documents and a number of documents, N, that include the keyword;', 'using the phase transition formula to ...

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM

Search keywords are acquired (S), a first item and a second item displayable by scale axes are set in accordance with the search keywords (S, S), a search is made by the search keywords and the scale axis values of the items and a presence of search hits is found (S), and display data for displaying a 2D distribution of the presence of search hits is generated by the scale axis values of the items in a plane with two axes including the scale axis of the first item and the scale axis of the second item (S). 19.-. (canceled)10. An information processing device comprising:a search keyword acquiring unit that acquires search keywords from a terminal device;an item setting unit that sets a first item and a second item displayable by scale axes in accordance with the search keywords;a searching unit that makes a search by the search keywords;a first display data generating unit that generates first display data for displaying a 2D distribution indicating more than or equal to a predetermined number of search hits by the searching on a Web page in accordance with the scale axis values of the items in a plane with two axes including the scale axis of the first item and the scale axis of the second item;a transmitting unit that transmits the generated first display data to the terminal device;a designated region acquiring unit that acquires information on a designated region designated by a user of the terminal device from the terminal device for the displayed 2D distribution;a search result transmitting unit that transmits, to the terminal device, second display data as a list of search results for displaying the search results by the searching belonging to the designated region on the terminal device; anda scale axis value acquiring unit that acquires the scale axis values of the first item and the second item in order to set three or more points in the plane, wherein the designated region acquiring unit acquires information on a designated region defined in the plane by ...

SEARCH ENGINE FOR VIDEO AND GRAPHICS

A method of selecting graphic or video files having corresponding locators used to locate such graphic or video files using a computer. Identifiers are created by searching an area within a web page near a graphic or video file for searchable identification terms and searching an area within a web page near links to a graphic or video for searchable identification terms. The identifiers are stored in a database. User requests for graphic or video file content are received and the database of identifiers is searched to find graphic and video files corresponding criteria of the user. Graphic or video file content is then provided to the user. 1creating an identifier of searchable file information from identifier information related to a video file, the identifier information comprising a video segment identifier;storing the identifier and the locator for the video file in a database;receiving search criteria;searching the identifiers in the database; andsending or displaying the results of the search.. A method of searching for graphic or video files having corresponding locators used to locate such graphic or video files using a computer, comprising: This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/021,478 filed Dec. 22, 2004, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/452,287 filed Nov. 30, 1999, which claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/110,299, all three of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties.This invention relates generally to Internet search engines, and more particularly to a search engine for retrieval of video and graphics over the Internet.Over the past few years, the amount of content available over the Internet has grown tremendously. Much of the Internet's content is distributed widely across many locations. Therefore, a search engine and/or navigator is required for meaningful retrieval of information. There are numerous search engines and navigators available to ...

PERSONALIZED RANKING OF CATEGORIZED SEARCH RESULTS

Query results are mapped onto domains comprising a plurality of predetermined conceptual groupings wherein the query results comprise database records identified by a search engine in response to a current search query. A population ranking is determined for the query results such that the query results are mapped onto the domains in accordance with query-click behavior collected from a user population for the current search query. A user ranking is then determined for the query results such that the query results are mapped onto the domains in accordance with query-click behavior collected from the user for prior search queries not including the current search query. Lastly, a merged ranking of the query results is generated according to the population ranking and the user ranking 1. A computer method of processing , the method comprising:mapping query results onto domains comprising a plurality of predetermined conceptual groupings wherein the query results comprise database records identified by a search engine in response to a current search query;determining a population ranking of the domains onto which the query results are mapped in accordance with query-click behavior collected from a user population for the current search query;determining a user ranking of the domains in accordance with query-click behavior collected from the user for prior search queries not including the current search query;generating a merged ranking of the query results according to the population ranking and the user ranking.2. The computer method according to claim 1 , wherein the merged ranking comprises a merged score for each of the domains onto which the query results are mapped claim 1 , and generating the merged ranking comprises providing the query results in an ordering according to the merged scores of the domains.3. The computer method according to claim 1 , wherein the current search query comprises one or more words claim 1 , and the query results comprise database ...

METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY DISPLAYING A PERSONALIZED HOME SCREEN ON A DEVICE

A method for dynamically generating and displaying a home screen on a display of a user device comprises receiving a user query input by a user of the device; receiving at least one environmental variable; determining an intent of a user based in part on the at least one environmental variable and the user query; selecting at least one resource of information from a plurality of resources of information respective of at least the intent, wherein each selected resource has a representative icon; generating a new home screen comprising an at least one icon corresponding to the at least one selected resource of information; and causing the user device to replace a current home screen with the new generated home screen. 1. A method for dynamically generating and displaying a home screen on a display of a user device , comprising:receiving at least one environmental variable;determining an intent of a user based in part on the at least one environmental variable;selecting at least one resource of information from a plurality of resources of information respective of at least the intent, wherein each selected resource has a representative icon;generating a new home screen comprising at least one icon corresponding to the at least one selected resource of information; andcausing the user device to replace a current home screen with the new generated home screen.2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:receiving at least one personal variable; anddetermining the user intent based on the least one personal variable and the at least one environmental variable.3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the at least one personal variable includes a profile of the user and demographic information related to the user.4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one environmental variable includes at least one of: search history claim 1 , a time of day claim 1 , a list of social friends as posted on a social web site claim 1 , location information claim 1 , motion information ...

Sentiment and Influence Analysis of Twitter Tweets

The present invention is directed to a system, method, and article of manufacture that employs a sentiment engine for conducting sentiment and influence analysis of various types of messages from the social media hosts or websites to extract opinions on different categories, which includes services, products or hotels, and others, collectively referred to as “the keyword product”. The sentiment engine includes a sentiment module configured to gather opinions or determine sentiment expressed in documents, a crawling module configured to servers of social network websites to obtain at least a subset of the documents or opinions from social media websites, a keyword module configured to extract keywords from documents, a filtering module configured to filter keywords and documents, and a classification module configured to classify documents, sentences, and/or keywords, a polarity prediction module configured to predict the polarity of a sentiment sentence, and a social media net promoter score configured to calculate a loyalty metric of users from social media websites, and a message analysis module configured to conduct analysis of a message from host social media sites, forums, blogs and product/service providers. The message analysis module includes analyzing message from other host social media sites. 1. A computer-implemented method for sentiment and influential analysis , comprising:receiving, by a processor, a plurality electronic messages posted by one or more users on social media web websites;identifying, by a processor, a polarity of the sentiment-bearing keywords for each electronic message using a phase transition formula;determining, by a processor, at least one category corresponding to the at least one sentiment-bearing keyword associated with each electronic message; anddetermining, by a processor, an influence attribute for each electronic message based on a plurality of influence factors.2. The method of claim 1 , prior to the receiving step claim 1 ...

Search Engine Indexing

Exemplary embodiments include a search engine indexing method, including finding a page on a server that includes keywords, scanning the page for a tag designating a portion of the page from which to index the keywords and in response to a presence of the tag within the page, indexing the portion of the page that is designated by the tag. 1. A search engine indexing method , comprising:finding a page on a server that includes keywords;scanning the page for a tag designating a portion of the page from which to index the keywords; andin response to a presence of the tag within the page, indexing the portion of the page that is designated by the tag.2. The method as claimed in further comprising claim 1 , in response to an absence of the tags in the page claim 1 , reading a first N bytes of the page to locate the keywords.3. The method as claimed in wherein the page includes a header tag and a trailer tag.4. The method as claimed in wherein the page is indexed between the header tag and the trailer tag.5. The method as claimed in wherein the header tag and a trailer tag enclose a designated portion of data on the page.6. The method as claimed in wherein the page is indexed from the data after the tag to a clip limit.7. The method as claimed in further comprising claim 1 , in response to determining the presence of tags in the page claim 1 , searching for keywords designated by the tag.8. A web page generation method claim 1 , comprising:generating electronic content in the web page;identifying a portion of the electronic content to be indexed by a web crawler; anddesignating the portion of the electronic content to be indexed by the web crawler with a header tag and a trailer tag,wherein the header tag and the trailer tag designate the portion of electronic content to be indexed by the web crawler.9. The method as claimed in further comprising placing the web page on a server and designating the web page as searchable by the web crawler. This application is a ...

METHOD FOR MANAGING INFORMATION

A method for managing the exchange of information is provided, wherein the method includes receiving at least one information location identifier, wherein the at least one information location identifier may be associated with at least one information portal and associating with at least one network browser. The method further includes generating an information location identifier template responsive to the at least one information portal and communicating with the at least one information portal to identify resultant information. 120-. (canceled)21. A method for directing at least one information portal to generate and display search results using a computer executing a software application distinct from the at least one information portal , the at least one information portal , when accessed by a user , displaying at least one data entry field allowing for entry of a term and , responsive to entry of the term , displaying search results to the user in a format specific to the at least one information portal , the method comprising:displaying a user interface to the user including at least one data entry field corresponding to the at least one data entry field of the at least one information portal;receiving a query term entered into the displayed at least one data entry field;communicating retrieval information to the at least one information portal in a data format effective to prompt the at least one information portal to generate search results associated with the received query term; anddisplaying the search results generated by the at least one information portal in the format specific to the at least one information portal.22. The method of claim 21 , wherein the data format includes a query string including the at least one query term.23. The method of claim 21 , wherein the computer communicates the retrieval information to the at least one information portal via a network.24. The method of claim 23 , wherein displaying the search results includes opening ...

IN-PRODUCT QUESTIONS, ANSWERS, AND TIPS

One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for providing help content related to a software application to a user. The technique involves receiving a first discussion element associated with a first user and including textual input related to a first software application and first contextual information related to the first software application. The technique further involves receiving second contextual information associated with a second user and related to the first software application, determining a measure of correlation between the first contextual information and the second contextual information, determining that the first discussion element should be transmitted to the second user based on the measure of correlation, and transmitting the first discussion element to the second user. 1. A computer-implemented method for providing help content related to a software application to a user , the method comprising:receiving a first discussion element associated with a first user and comprising textual input related to a first software application and first contextual information related to the first software application;receiving second contextual information associated with a second user and related to the first software application;determining, via a processing unit, a measure of correlation between the first contextual information and the second contextual information;based on the measure of correlation, determining that the first discussion element should be transmitted to the second user; andtransmitting the first discussion element to the second user.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first contextual information comprises one or more application commands.3. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining comprises executing one or more correlation algorithms.4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising associating with the first discussion element at least one of an application screenshot or a user design file.5. The method of claim 1 ...

Folksonomy Weighted Search and Advertisement Placement System and Method

A method for folksonomy weighted searching is provided. The method includes identifying two or more Internet resources associated with a folksonomy. One or more words or phrases are identified in the Internet resources. The words or phrases are weighted based on a frequency of use, and a database is generated associating the words or phrases with at least one of the Internet resources. 1. (canceled)2. (canceled)3. (canceled)4. (canceled)5. (canceled)6. (canceled)7. (canceled)8. (canceled)9. (canceled)10. (canceled)11. (canceled)12. (canceled)13. (canceled)14. (canceled)15. (canceled)16. (canceled)17. (canceled)18. (canceled)19. (canceled)20. (canceled)21. (canceled)22. (canceled)23. (canceled)24. A method for performing weighted searching , the method steps comprising:providing one or more networked computing platform devices, wherein at least one computing device or some combination of the computing devices is operable as a search engine adapted to accept input from a user, wherein at least one computing device or some combination of the computing devices is further operable to perform the following processing steps:receiving a list of one or more Internet resources associated with a topic;associating the one or more Internet resources with words or phrases from documents available from the listed Internet resources according to an associative database;determining a weight for at least one of the one or more Internet resources based on an existing list of words or phrases associated with a frequency according to a number of times the at least one Internet resource has been accessed in response to a search;applying the weight to the at least one Internet resource;extracting the words or phrases;determining a grammatical context for the extracted words and phrases wherein the grammatical context includes at least one of a grammatical category of the extracted words and phrases;determining whether generating a grammatical filter based on the determined grammatical ...

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TAGGING ORIGINAL DATA GENERATED BY THINGS IN THE INTERNET OF THINGS

A method and system for tagging original data generated by things in the Internet of Things (IoT). The method includes: performing relativity detection on acquired Web messages to obtain Web messages related to various events; acquiring address information contained in the related Web messages; determining adjacent things for various events based on the acquired address information; and tagging original data generated by the adjacent things determined using at least partial content of the related Web messages as metadata. The system includes modules for carrying out the above method. 1. A method for tagging original data generated by things in the Internet of Things (IoT) , comprising:performing relativity detection on acquired Web messages to obtain Web messages related to various events;acquiring address information contained in the related Web messages;determining adjacent things for the various events based on the acquired address information; andtagging original data generated by the adjacent things determined using at least partial content of the related Web messages as metadata.2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of determining adjacent things for the various events based on the acquired address information comprises:acquiring address information associated with one user from the related Web messages;producing fitted curves based on the acquired address information through curve fitting; anddetermining adjacencies for the things based on the location information of the things in the IoT and the fitted curves.3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the adjacencies to the interested events are determined for the respective things according to the minimal value of the distances between the location information of the respective things and the fitted curves claim 2 , or the minimal value of the maximum distances between the location information of the respective things and the fitted curves claim 2 , or the minimal value of the average ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY ORGANIZING AND CLASSIFYING BUSINESSES ON THE WORLD-WIDE WEB

A method and search engine for classifying a source publishing a document on a portion of a network, includes steps of electronically receiving a document, based on the document, determining a source which published the document, and assigning a code to the document based on whether data associated with the document published by the source matches with data contained in a database. An intelligent geographic- and business topic-specific resource discovery system facilitates local commerce on the World-Wide Web and also reduces search time by accurately isolating information for end-users. Distinguishing and classifying business pages on the Web by business categories using Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes is achieved through an automatic iterative process. 1. A method of classifying a source publishing a document on a portion of a network , comprising steps of:electronically receiving a document;based on the document, determining a source which published the document; andassigning a code to said document based on whether data associated with the document published by the source matches with data contained in a database.2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said portion of said network comprises a graphical multimedia portion of said network claim 1 , said source comprises a Web site publishing a home page claim 1 , and said network comprises the Internet.3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein said graphical multimedia portion of said network comprises the World-Wide Web (WWW) and said document comprises a Web document claim 2 ,wherein said step of assigning a code includes determining that the Web site comprises a first entity when there is a match of the Web site with said data, and determining that the Web site comprises a second entity when there is no match of the Web site with said data.4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said step of determining a source includes:extracting a domain name from a predetermined uniform resources ...

LOCALE CENTRIC SEARCH OPTIMIZATION IN RESPONSE TO USER OPT-IN

The present disclosure provides for locale-centric search optimization upon user opt-in. In response to receiving a search query generated by a user of an electronic communication device who has opted to receive search suggestions that are relevant to a locale, a search engine server provides to the user at least one keyword suggestion that is relevant to the locale and can then perform a search on an updated search query generated by the user of the electronic communication device. The updated search query may include the initial search query, or the at least one keyword suggestion provided to the user that is relevant to the locale, or some combination. The search engine server returns the results of the search on the updated search query to the user via the electronic communication device. 1. A method of locale-centric search optimization , performed by a server , comprising:in response to receiving a search query, determining whether an option to receive search suggestions that are relevant to a locale is also received;if it is determined that the option to receive search suggestions that are relevant to the locale is also received, providing at least one keyword suggestion that is relevant to the locale;performing a search on an updated search query comprising one or more of the search query and the at least one keyword suggestion that is relevant to the locale; and returning the results of the search on the updated search query.2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:determining that the option is generated by a user opting in to receive search suggestions that are relevant to the locale.3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the user opting in occurs by the user interfacing with a search application at a user interface of the electronic communication device to select the locale.4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising in response to receiving the search query and the option to receive search suggestions that are relevant to the locale:searching a ...

ASSOCIATIVE SEARCH ENGINE

This invention relates to an advertisement machine which provides advertisements to a user searching for desired information within a data network. The machine receives, from a user, a search request including a search argument corresponding to the desired information and searches, based upon the received search argument, a first database having data network related information to generate search results. It also correlates the received search argument to a particular advertisement in a second database having advertisement related information. The search results together with the particular advertisement are provided by the machine to the user. 1. A method of searching for desired information , the method comprising:receiving, from a user having user profile data associated therewith, a search request comprising a search argument indicative of desired information;providing the search argument to a first search engine for the first search engine to search, based on the received search argument, a first database to generate a first search result;providing the search argument to a second search engine for the second search engine to correlate the search argument and the user profile data with particular information in a second database to produce a second search result; andproviding the first and second search results to the user.2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising providing claim 1 , to the second search engine claim 1 , the user profile data associated with the user.3. The method of claim 1 , wherein correlating the received search argument and the user profile data with the particular information in the second database comprises using at least one non-precise correlation technique.4. The method of claim 1 , wherein correlating the received search argument and the user profile data with the particular information in the second database comprises using at least one rule-based software algorithm.5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second database is an ...

CENTRAL SERVER, PROXY SERVER ARRANGEMENT FOR USE IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET

In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a proxy server comprising a computer program product is provided. According to a feature of the present invention, the computer program product is disposed on a computer readable media, and the product includes computer executable process steps operable to control a computer to: implement a proxy server operable to receive a rule protocol for modification of information received via the Internet, according to instructions caused by an entity that generates content related to the information, and to modify content by the proxy server, of information received via the Internet, according to the rule protocol. 1. A computer program product , disposed on a computer readable media , the product including computer executable process steps operable to control a computer to: implement a proxy server operable to receive a rule protocol for modification of information received via the Internet , according to instructions caused by an entity that generates content related to the information , and to modify content by the proxy server , of information received via the Internet , according to the rule protocol.2. The computer program product of wherein the modification of content includes sponsored link information.3. The computer program product of wherein the modification of content includes advertisements.4. A computer program product claim 1 , disposed on a computer readable media claim 1 , the product including computer executable process steps operable to control a computer to: implement a proxy server operable to receive a rule protocol for assisting a user web browser by controlling information received by the web browser via the Internet claim 1 , according to instructions caused by an entity that generates content related to the information.5. The computer program product of wherein the process step of controlling information received by the web browser via the Internet claim 4 , according to instructions caused by an ...

Method and System to update user activities from the World Wide Web to subscribed social media web sites after approval

Disclosed is a system and method to search the World Wide Web for latest user activities and information and update the user activities and information to user subscribed social media websites with user's approval. User subscribes their personal information and interests to the present invention. Present invention crawls and formats the information available in the World Wide Web for the provided user information and interests. The formatted information is notified to the user for approval. The user reviews the information, accepts or rejects the information. The user can edit the information to change the content. The approved information is updated to user subscribed social media websites. 1. A method for updating one or more activities of a plurality of users that are available in the World Wide Web to a plurality of user subscribed social media web sites based on a plurality of user approval , the method comprising:storing in a database a plurality of user profiles;crawling the World Wide Web for plurality of web pages and storing crawled web pages in a database;indexing a plurality of crawled web pages and storing them in a database;querying for plurality of information about one or more users available in the user profile database from the database said in indexing step;generating a plurality of notification messages for plurality of users available in the user profile database;storing a plurality of notification messages for users in notification database;sending plurality of notification messages to a plurality of users using users preferred notification method;receiving approved notification messages from the plurality of users;updating a plurality of modified notification messages from plurality of users in notification database;retrieving a plurality of approved notification messages from notification database and a plurality of social media websites along with credentials for the plurality of users from user profile database;updating the plurality of ...

Sharing of Profile Information with Content Providers

In some implementations, a method includes receiving a search query, at an information provider, from a mobile device; generating a plurality of search results that are responsive to the search query and directed to corresponding content providers that are external to the information provider; identifying one or more search results from the plurality of search results that are directed to partners of the information provider; and providing, to the mobile device, the plurality of search results, wherein the one or more search results directed to partners of the information provider include location information that is stored in a profile maintained by the information provider and associated with the mobile device, wherein the location information is passed to the corresponding partners upon selection of the one or more search results. 1. A computer-implemented method comprising:receiving a search query, at an information provider, from a mobile device;generating a plurality of search results that are responsive to the search query and directed to corresponding content providers that are external to the information provider;identifying one or more search results from the plurality of search results that are directed to partners of the information provider; andproviding, to the mobile device, the plurality of search results, wherein the one or more search results directed to partners of the information provider include location information that is stored in a profile maintained by the information provider and associated with the mobile device, wherein the location information is passed to the corresponding partners upon selection of the one or more search results.2. A computer-implemented method comprising:receiving a search query, at an information provider, from a mobile device;generating a plurality of search results that are responsive to the search query and directed to corresponding content providers that are external to the information provider;identifying one ...

EXPERIENCE GRAPH

Method and system for organizing and sharing content through experience are described. In one embodiment, content may be organized and shared among users through a specific experience. A method for sharing content in a network may include: collecting contents related to a specific experience from a specific user; generating an experience graph of the specific experience; enabling the specific user to invite other users to join the experience graph; and enabling each user inside the experience graph to share new content into the experience graph. 1. A computer-implemented method of sharing content related to a specific experience within an experience graph in a social network , the specific experience being a central node in the experience graph , the experience graph configured to link the specific experience with each of the corresponding contents , the method comprising:collecting the contents related to the specific experience from a specific user, wherein the specific experience is defined by at least one of a plurality of attributes, the plurality of attributes including a what attribute, a who attribute, a when attribute, and a where attribute;generating the experience graph by combining the specific experience with the contents, the experience graph comprising the specific experience and the contents, wherein the experience graph is traversable by the at least one of the plurality of attributes;enabling the specific user to invite one or more additional users to join the experience graph, wherein each user inside the experience graph has access to all contents inside the experience graph; andenabling each user to share new content into the experience graph; wherein the links between the specific experience and the corresponding contents are automatically updated; wherein the new content is accessible by all other users inside the experience graph through the experience graph.2. A computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1 , wherein one or more of the ...

BROWSER BASED LANGUAGE RECOGNITION SUPPORTING CENTRAL WEB SEARCH TRANSLATION

A web browser agent or plug-in installed into a web browser of a client device provides translation services along with a search engine server. The system accesses a web page in one (local) language and then translates to another (foreign) language and displays the translated content in a web page for user's viewing. The web browser agent is an add-on software tool or plug-in, provided by the search engine server and installed into the web browser. As a result of installation, a toolbar appears on the top of the web browser's page. This toolbar provides the interface to enable local translation of web pages from a local/web language to a target/foreign language useful to the user. Centralized (cloud computing) translation services by servers of a third party may also be employed. Web pages in any number of languages may be accessed using this operations/structure. 1. Computer program code for instructing a first device of a first user to perform a method for interacting with a web search infrastructure , the first user having a preference for reading text of a first language , the web search infrastructure gathering both first web text of a second language and second web text of a third language , the method comprising:directing the first device to automatically identify the second language within first search results received from the web search infrastructure, the first search results including at least a portion of the first web text, the automatic identification of the second language being based on a delivery from the web search infrastructure before receiving the first search results;directing the first device to automatically identify the third language within second search results received from the web search infrastructure, the first search results including at least a portion of the first web text;directing the first device to respond to the identification of the second language by offering to the first user via the first device remote language-translation ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIRECTING CONTENT TO USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING ENGINE

A system and method for providing a third generation social network. The system provides processes that allow physical objects to be represented as social objects in the social network. A user may then interact with the social objects. These interactions allow the system to collect the content of the interactions of a particular user. The content of the interactions may then be analyzed and used to direct specific content to specific users that may have an interest in the specific content as indicated by the content of the interactions of those users. Furthermore, the system provides a method for associating data with a shape in an image to allow a user and/or groups of users to interact with the image. 136-. (canceled)37. A product for associating text with a shape in a digital image comprising; receive an image,', 'determine a shape in said image;', 'store data describing said shape in a record for said image stored in an image database,', 'receive an input of text associated with said shape,', 'store an indicator of said text and said shape in said record,', 'embed said indicator of said association in said image proximate said location of said shape in said image, and', 'embed a link to said image database in said image; and, 'instructions for directing a processing unit toa media readable by said processing unit to store said instructions.38. The product of wherein said instructions to determine said shape comprise: receive an input of a portion of an image,', 'determine an object in said portion of said image, and', 'determine an outline of said object that defines said shape., 'instructions for directing said processing unit to39. The product of wherein said instructions to determine said shape comprise; 'receive inputs modifying said shape.', 'instructions for directing said processing unit to;'}40. The product of wherein said text is an address of web site.41. The product of wherein said text is a description of an object identified by said shape.42. The ...

Programmable search engine

A programmable search engine system is programmable by a variety of different entities, such as client devices and vertical content sites to customize search results for users. Context files store instructions for controlling the operations of the programmable search engine. The context files are processed by various context processors, which use the instructions therein to provide various pre-processing, post-processing, and search engine control operations.

VARIABLE USER INTERFACE BASED ON DOCUMENT ACCESS PRIVILEGES

Users may be presented with different viewing interfaces for a document based on a combination of factors relating to display rights possessed for the document and user specific information. In one implementation, the user's location is used to determine portions of the document that can be displayed to the user. More particularly, access privileges to a document for a user are determined based on geographical location information of the user and based on access rights possessed for the document. Portions of the document may then be formatted for display to the user based on the determined access privileges. 134.-. (canceled)35. A method comprising:obtaining, using one or more processors associated with one or more server devices, access privileges for a user of a document based on information associated with the user and access rights associated with the document;obtaining, using one or more processors associated with the one or more server devices, additional information relating to at least one of the access rights or a content of the document;determining, using one or more processors associated with the one or more server devices and based on the obtained access privileges and the obtained additional information, one or more first portions of the document to be readable by the user and one or more second portions of the document to be unreadable by the user; andproviding, for display and using one or more processors associated with the one or more server devices, the one or more readable first portions and a representation of the one or more unreadable second portions.36. The method of claim 35 , where the information associated with the user includes one or more of:information regarding a geographic location of the user,information relating to whether a device, associated with the user, accepts cookies, or security information relating to the user.37. The method of claim 35 , further comprising:storing a plurality of versions of the document, one of the ...

Worldwide Billboard that includes a worldwide event search engine, a worldwide service search engine, a mechanism for posting and announcing events and services, a mechanism for uploading information regarding services and events, a mechanism for writing comments regarding services and events, a mechanism for making reservation for services and events, a mechanism for giving grades to the services and events

A Worldwide Billboard that includes a worldwide event search engine, a worldwide service search engine, a mechanism for posting and adding events, services, information regarding services and events, comments regarding services and events, a mechanism for making reservation for services and events, a mechanism for grading to the services and events. Basically, this invention functions based on time and location (place). The current invention performs a search for services and events based on their time of occurrence and place of occurrence. This is a search for what is happening in a specified time, and in a specified district, specified country or the world. Users have access to all required information around the world in one website, information such as events, available services, people's comments, and critique's reviews. 1. A website that focuses on all events and services worldwide , the website comprising:a) an event search engine generating and outputting a search result regarding worldwide events based on the events' time and location of occurrence;b) a service search engine generating and outputting a search result regarding worldwide services based on the services' time and location of occurrence; andc) a means for posting and announcing services and events.2. The website of claim 1 , further comprising a database.3. The website of claim 1 , wherein the search result comprises information found in the world wide web (www) claim 1 , and in the database.4. The website of claim 1 , wherein the search result may be sent to an event and service basket.5. The website of claim 1 , wherein the website is used for making a reservation among the search result.6. The website of claim 1 , wherein the website is used for writing a comment regarding the services and events.7. The website of claim 1 , wherein the website is used for writing a detail information regarding the services and events.8. The website of claim 1 , wherein the website is used for uploading a file ...

Method and Apparatus for Sorting Inquiry Results

Sorting inquiry results includes, based on extracted inquiry results matching search conditions of a user, collecting features of the inquiry results. The collected features may be used as features of a respective inquiry result and feature fitting may be conducted based on a support vector machine (SVM) regression model to obtain a feature fitting value of the respective inquiry result. The inquiry results may be sorted based on relevancy values of the inquiry results, and, for inquiry results having a same relevancy level, the inquiry results may be sorted in a top-down manner based on feature fitting values of the inquiry results. 1. A method of sorting inquiry results in a search engine , performed by one or more processors configured with computer readable instructions , the method comprising:based on extracted inquiry results matching search conditions of a user, collecting one or more features of a respective inquiry result, the one or more features of the inquiry results including one or any combination of the following factors: a quality factor indicating quality of the respective inquiry result, an active level factor indicating an active level of a supplier relating to the respective inquiry result, an industry factor indicating an industry of the supplier relating to the respective inquiry result, an information click conversion rate and an information feedback conversion rate of the supplier relating to the respective inquiry result;using collected factors as the one or more features of the respective inquiry result and conducting feature fitting based on a support vector machine (SVM) regression model to obtain a feature fitting value of the respective inquiry result; andsorting the inquiry results based on relevancy values of the inquiry results, and, for inquiry results having a same relevancy level, sorting the inquiry results in a top-down manner based on feature fitting values of the inquiry results.2. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein ...

METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROMOTING HUMAN-ASSISTED SEARCH

A method and system of promoting service(s) of a search system are disclosed. A monitoring software or a search monitor may be operative on a user device. A user may be notified of an alternate search result(s) when such a result is identified. Condition(s) whereby a notification is presented to a user may be modified based on user action(s) and/or other information. 1. A computer-implemented method , comprising:receiving a search request;selecting a search result based on a match of the search request to a query; andproviding an indication of the search result and a response of a search engine when the search result is superior to the response of the search engine to the search request and the search result is produced by a human searcher.2. The method of claim 1 , comprising:choosing the search engine based on a selection by a user submitting the search request.3. The method of claim 1 , comprising:ranking the search engine based on a comparison of search results produced by human searchers to responses of the search engine; andchoosing the search engine based on the ranking of the search engine.4. The method of claim 1 , comprising:directing the search request to a human assistant when the search result is not superior to the response of the search engine.5. The method of claim 1 , comprising:ranking search results associated with the query; andselecting the search result based on the ranking.6. The method of claim 1 , comprising:ranking search results associated with the query based on the match and a rating of the human searcher; andselecting the search result based on the ranking.7. The method of claim 1 , comprising:determining that the search result is superior to the response based on a ranking of the human searcher and a rating of the search engine.8. The method of claim 1 , comprising:determining that the search result is superior to the response based on a ranking of the human searcher and the search engine for a category of the search request.9. The ...

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING SYNONYMS AND USING SYNONYMS TO SEARCH

A method and an apparatus for identifying synonym and utilizing such synonym to conduct search is disclosed. The disclosed method includes: obtaining arbitrary two words to be identified; determining whether a shortest edit distance between the two words less than or equal to an edit distance threshold; determining whether the two words to be identified exist in a preset knowledge database, and if an answer is yes then searching a smallest granularity type with highest weight value for each word in the knowledge database; and if the two word have the same smallest granularity type with highest weight value, then determining such two words are synonyms, or non-synonym otherwise. The disclosed techniques greatly improve accuracy of synonym identification and guarantee effect of synonym identification. 1. A method for identifying synonyms , the method comprising:obtaining, by a server, a first word and a second word, each of the first word and the second word including at least one term;determining that a shortest edit distance between the first word and the second word is less than or equal to an edit distance threshold;determining whether both of the first word and the second word exist in a preset knowledge database;in response to determining that both of the first word and the second word exist in the preset knowledge database, finding a smallest granularity type with a highest weight value for each of the first word and the second word in the knowledge database; and in response to determining that the first word and the second word have the same smallest granularity type with the highest weight value, determining that the first word and the second word are synonyms; and', 'in response to determining that the first word and the second word do not have the same smallest granularity type with the highest weight value, then determining that the two words are non-synonyms., 'determining whether the first word and second word have the same smallest granularity type with ...

Interest Keyword Identification

A domain classifier develops and maintains relevance data about specific domains based on historical relevance data and source context data. Such data may be used to classify the user's interest in attempting to visit a specific domain and thereby redirect the user to a website expected to be aligned with the user's interest. In various implementations, the historical relevance data is derived from source context data and/or post-visit user behavior collected from previous attempts to visit a specific domain. The source context data collected from the current visit may also be used as source context-factors to influence domain classification. Based on such historical and current source context factors, as well as the domain address provided in the user's navigation request, a domain classifier consults the historical relevance data and provides the user with Web content that is identified as likely to be relevant to the user's interests. 1. A method comprising:identifying at least one interest keyword based on a combination of a user's keyword search results and the user's clickstream data responsive to the user's keyword search results; andtransmitting the at least one interest keyword to a server that serves content associated with the interest keyword to the user.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the server is an advertising server and the content includes an advertisement that is determined to be relevant to the at least one interest keyword.3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:receiving the user's keyword search results and the user's clickstream data prior to the identifying operation.4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the content is one or both of advertising content and web content.5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user's keyword search results are obtained from the user's entry of one or more search keywords into a search engine.6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the identifying operation includes:identifying the user's perceived interest ...

Search Engines and Systems with Handheld Document Data Capture Devices

Embodiments of the disclosed innovations provide systems and methods for locating data associated with rendered documents. Some embodiments support the use of a handheld document data capture device. 1. A system for locating and retrieving information , comprising:an aggregated search index comprising document indexes from multiple restricted sources, wherein the aggregated search index also comprises indications of whether indexed electronic content corresponds to one or more rendered documents; anda search engine operatively coupled with the aggregated search index, wherein the search engine is configured to determine whether information associated with a search query is based on information captured from a rendered document and to search the aggregated search index in response to receiving the search query.2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the electronic content comprises:at least one of a web page, image, text, Adobe Portable Document Format, or word processing file.3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the document indexes from multiple restricted sources comprise:indexes specific to at least one of particular publications or periodicals.4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the search engine supports search queries comprising at least one selected from the group of a time stamp claim 1 , a location stamp claim 1 , a capture device identifier claim 1 , a billing identifier claim 1 , and a subscriber identifier.5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the aggregate index is stored in a first storage device claim 1 , further comprising copying at least a portion of the aggregated index from the first storage device to a second storage device that is more readily accessible to the capture device initiating the search query.6. The system of claim 1 , further comprising logic to determine a scope of a search using scan context information to select an index or a portion of the aggregated index applied to the search claim 1 , wherein the scan context information comprises ...

LARGE SCALE ANALYTICAL REPORTING FROM WEB CONTENT

An analysis system is configured to perform quantitative (e.g., statistical) and/or qualitative analysis of large numbers of documents, files, etc., such as web pages, images on web pages, social medial pages, or other documents available via the Internet, an extranet, an Intranet, etc. In some embodiments, the large numbers of documents, files, etc., may be treated as a data set that can be quantitatively analyzed and reports of such analyses may be made electronically available to a user. 1. A method for quantitatively and/or qualitatively analyzing a plurality of documents available on a communication network , comprising:generating, at one or more computing devices, inferred metadata regarding documents in the plurality of documents available on the communication network at least by (i) using a search engine index that indexes the plurality documents, and (ii) analyzing one or more of (a) contents of documents in the plurality of documents, (b) metadata included in documents in the plurality of documents, (c) data associated with documents in the plurality of documents and external to the documents, (d) previously generated inferred metadata regarding documents in the plurality of documents;responsive to a request to perform a quantitative and/or qualitative analysis of the plurality of documents, performing, at one or more computing devices, the requested analysis using (i) the search engine index, and (ii) the inferred metadata; andgenerating, at one or more computing devices, a report that includes results of the requested analysis.2. A method according to claim 1 , wherein at least some of the inferred metadata is generated responsive to the request to perform the analysis.3. A method according to claim 1 , wherein at least some of the inferred metadata is generated prior to receiving the request to perform the analysis.4. A method according to claim 1 , wherein generating the inferred metadata comprises determining for each document in at least a subset of ...

Intelligent client capability-based results related to a character stream

Information may be presented to a user by using a first application to receive a character stream of one or more noncompletion characters. The noncompletion characters indicate that additional characters may be received. The character stream is exchanged with a host that analyzes the character stream to generate results that are responsive to the user's predicted interest. Results are received and displayed so that the user may select one of the results to launch a code segment related to the selected result.

Pangenetic Web Item Recommendation System

Computer based systems, methods, software and databases are presented in which correlations between web item preferences and pangenetic (genetic and epigenetic) attributes of individuals are used for pangenetic based web item recommendation in which a user can request and receive personalized online recommendations of web items that are based on the user's pangenetic makeup. Data masking can be used to maintain privacy of sensitive portions of the pangenetic data. 1. In a multi-user computer system that provides user access to a database of items , a method of recommending items to a specific user , the method comprising the computer implemented steps of:a) generating a data structure that associates item preferences of a group of users with at least one genetic attribute of the group of users;b) receiving a request for an item recommendation for the specific user;c) accessing genetic information of the specific user; andd) providing the item recommendation for the specific user based on the correlation of the at least one genetic attribute of the group of users with the genetic information of the specific user.2. The method of wherein the item recommendation is a set of goods recommended for purchase.3. The method of wherein the item preferences of the group of users is based on user's satisfaction.4. The method of wherein the user's satisfaction is determined based on purchase data.5. The method of wherein the user's satisfaction is determined based on user feedback.6. A computer system for genetic based recommendations comprising:a) a database that associates item preferences of a group of users with at least one genetic attribute of the group of users;b) a processor; i) receiving a request for an item recommendation for the specific user;', 'ii) accessing genetic information of the specific user; and', 'iii) providing the item recommendation for the specific user based on the correlation of the at least one genetic attribute of the group of users with the ...

APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION WITHIN SPACE OF INTEREST

One aspect of the invention provides an apparatus for searching for position information. The apparatus includes: a search input unit for receiving a search request from a user, the search request specifying (i) one or more search terms and (ii) one or more space of interest (SOI) objects in which the search is to be conducted; a search processing unit for conducting a search for the one or more search terms within the one or more SOI objects specified in the search request and one or more sub-SOIs of the one or more specified SOI objects; a database; and a search output unit for outputting a result of the search by the search processing unit to the user. 1. An apparatus for searching for position information , comprising:a search input unit for receiving a search request from a user, the search request specifying (i) one or more search terms and (ii) one or more space of interest (SOI) objects in which the search is to be conducted;a search processing unit for conducting a search for the one or more search terms within the one or more SOI objects specified in the search request and one or more sub-SOIs of the one or more specified SOI objects;a database; anda search output unit for outputting a result of the search by the search processing unit to the user.2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the SOI has a relationship set up with other SOIs and content.3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the search input unit inputs a request for a position information search by providing objects or an SOI selection window to the user based on graphic information and making selection from among the objects or pieces of SOI information.4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the SOI database stores the SOI claim 1 , a type of relationship structure for the SOI claim 1 , and an object position data indicating a position of an object corresponding to the SOI.5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the search processing unit sets lower level SOIs ...

USER ENTERTAINMENT AND ENGAGEMENT ENHANCEMENTS TO SEARCH SYSTEM

According to one aspect of the present invention, a method of actively engaging a user of a search system can include receiving from the user a search query for a search of a corpus of information and providing the user with search results for the search. The user can also be prompted to participate in a search-related activity wherein at least one aspect of the search-related activity is dependent on a context of the search. User input for performing the search-related activity can be accepted and an activity response can be provided to the user. 1. A method comprising:receiving, at a search engine provided by a particular party, a search query from a user; the search engine performing a search of a corpus of information and determining search results for the search query,', 'the search engine displaying the search results for the user, and', 'the particular party awarding a reward to the user for the user having submitted the search query to the search engine; and, 'in response to receiving the search query, performing the steps ofdisplaying to the user a message indicating a nature of the reward;wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of displaying to the user a message indicating the nature of the reward is performed in response to determining that the user accepted the reward.3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising claim 1 , in response to receiving the search query claim 1 , displaying an indication to inform the user of availability of the reward.4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the nature of the reward depends on one or more keywords included in the search query.5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising displaying an indication that the user has been awarded the reward as part of a display presenting the search results.6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the search engine presenting the user with a link which claim 1 , when activated claim 1 , causes the user to ...

SEARCHING, SORTING, AND DISPLAYING VIDEO CLIPS AND SOUND FILES BY RELEVANCE

A documents database has a plurality of documents, including but not limited to text files, video clips and sound files. Each document is associated with at least one category of a plurality of categories in a categories database, and each category has at least one keyword. A search request having at least one search term is received from a user, and a categories database is searched for categories having a keyword corresponding to the user search term to identify first level categories. The other keywords from the identified first level categories are retrieved and the documents database is searched for documents having a user search term or a retrieved keyword. The identified documents are then ranked and presented to the user. Other search expansion techniques, and display techniques, are also discussed. 2. The method of further comprisingassigning to a document the highest score of the persons relevant to the document; andranking the documents based upon the assigned scores.3. The method of wherein the coefficient for the broadness of impact rank is a function of the type of political office.4. The method of wherein the broadness of impact rank of the person Y is determined at least in part by whether the person Y is either a current holder of the political office claim 3 , a former holder of the political office claim 3 , or a candidate for the political office. This application is a divisional of co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/138,770, filed Jun. 13, 2008, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.The present invention relates to document search engines and, more particularly, to searching, ranking, and displaying documents, including but not limited to text files, video clips and sound files.Current search engines search for documents which have one or more of the search terms specified by the user initiating the search. These search engines, however, miss documents which do not contain those specific terms. ...

System, Method and Apparatus for Electronically Searching for an Item

The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for electronically searching for an item by receiving a search request comprising a requested category and one or more requested attributes of the item and storing the search request in a search index based on the requested category and the requested attribute(s). The search index includes one or more categories and each category is defined by a taxonomy of attributes. The search index is then searched for any previously stored search requests that match the requested category and the requested attribute(s), a result of the search is determined and a search response that includes the result of the search is sent. 1. A non-transitory computer readable medium for electronically searching for an item comprising program instructions when executed by a processor causes the processor to perform the steps of:accessing a search index comprising a set of predefined categories, wherein each predefined category is defined by a taxonomy of attributes comprising a set of predefined attributes, wherein each predefined attribute is defined by at least one question and one or more answers to each question;receiving a search request for the item from a user, wherein the search request comprises a requested category for the item selected from the set of predefined item categories, and one or more requested attributes of the item selected from the set of predefined attributes by providing at least one of the answers to at least one of the questions defining the requested attribute of the item;storing the search request for the item in the search index based on the requested category for the item and the requested attribute(s) of the item;searching the search index for any previously stored search requests from other users that match the requested category and the requested attribute(s);determining a result of the search;sending a search response comprising the result of the search;persistently searching the search index for ...

DEVICES AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING DATA ON DATA SOURCES ASSOCIATED WITH A CATEGORY...

A mobile wireless communications device includes a display, at least one input device, and a processor coupled to the display and the at least one input device. The processor is configured to associate each of a plurality of search categories with each of a plurality of search data sources, based upon the at least one input device. The processor is also configured to determine a given search category of the plurality thereof associated with a search term input via the at least one input device. The processor is further configured to search the search data source associated with the given search category for the search term, and generate search results based thereupon, and display the search results on the display. 1. A mobile wireless communications device comprising:a display;a memory configured to store application data;at least one input device; and associate each of a plurality of search categories with each of a plurality of search data sources, based upon the at least one input device, at least one of the plurality of search data sources comprising the application data,', 'determine a given search category of the plurality thereof associated with a search term input via said at least one input device,', 'search the search data source associated with the given search category for the search term, and generate search results based thereupon, and', 'display the search results on the display., 'a processor coupled to the memory, the display and the at least one input device, and configured to'}2. The mobile wireless communications device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to determine the given search category associated with the search term by receiving input of the given search category via the at least one input device.3. (canceled)4. The mobile wireless communications device of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the plurality of search data sources comprises a web search engine.5. The mobile wireless communications device of claim 1 , wherein at ...

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING THE INTERNET

Some embodiments relate to performing a search for content via the Internet, wherein user input specifying a search query is supplied to a mobile communications device, such as, for example, a smartphone. The mobile communications device separately issues the search query to a plurality of search engines and can receive the results from each search engine and display the results to the user. Thus, the user does not have to separately issue the query to each of the plurality of search engines. 1. A method , implemented at least in part via at least one hardware computer processor of a mobile communications device , of performing a search for content via the Internet , the method comprising:receiving, at the mobile communications device, user input specifying a first search query;issuing at least one second search query from the mobile communications device to a plurality of search engines, wherein the at least one second search query is based, at least in part, on the content of the first search query:wherein the plurality of search engines comprises at least two different site-specific search engines.2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising acts of:in response to issuing the at least one second search query to the plurality of search engines, receiving a response from each of the plurality of search engines, wherein the response from each of the plurality of search engines includes search results provided from the respective search engine.3. (canceled)4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:transmitting the monitoring information from the mobile communications device to at least one server that stores historical access information.5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first search query is the same as the second search query.6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user input is voice input.7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of search engines comprises at least one general purpose search engine.8. At least one computer-readable medium encoded ...

DISTRIBUTED GLOBALLY ACCESSIBLE INFORMATION NETWORK IMPLEMENTED WITH A LOCAL INFORMATION NETWORK

A distributed information network is constructed for gathering information from sites distributed across a globally accessible computer network, i.e., the Internet. The distributed information network preferably includes a root server that stores a list of multiple distributed sites each represented by metadata. A network browser delivers an information search request to the root server, which in response develops a profiled information search request. The information provider of each of the distributed sites stores metadata corresponding to information content that is retrievable in response to the profiled information search request for search results derivable from the information content to which the metadata correspond. A profiled information communication link between the root server and each of the multiple distribution sites enables formation of a path for delivery of the search results to a destination site, from a site or sites represented by the metadata of the profiled information search request. 1. A method of gathering information from a local information network that includes multiple community sites distributed across a globally accessible computer network , comprising:an information subroot server that stores a community site list of multiple distributed community sites, each of which represented by metadata corresponding to directly or indirectly available information content;a local information network site implemented with a local information provider storing local metadata corresponding to information content that is available at a local server of or a local server associated with the local information provider, the information being retrievable in response to a first local profiled information search request from the information subroot server for search results of a search performed on the information content;a level one community server implemented with a level one server information provider storing local metadata corresponding to ...

Systems and Methods for Clustering User Reviews

Systems and methods for clustering user reviews are disclosed in which a plurality of user reviews are extracted from electronic documents. The electronic documents contain user reviews of a plurality of items of interest. A set of user reviews is identified in the plurality of user reviews as being associated with the same item of interest in the plurality of items of interest. Item identifying information included in the electronic documents is used for this identification. The set of user reviews is then associated with the same item of interest. Examples of item identifying information include unique product identifiers, brand names, model numbers, and category information. In some instances, the item identifying information is extracted from metadata included in the electronic document. In some instances, the electronic documents are obtained from e-commerce websites or product-review websites.

System and Method for Gathering, Restructuring, and Searching Text Data from Several Different Data Sources

Collecting and analyzing crime related information is one of the most important tasks of law enforcement agencies. Traditionally, crime related information is entered into structured database that allows law enforcement officers to later search the database. However, the user interface is often not well suited for easily finding relevant documents quickly. To improve the situation, a law enforcement information system that stores data in two different types of formats is disclosed. Crime related information is stored both in a traditional structured database and in a modified natural language database. The modified natural language database is then indexed and may be searched with an internet search engine type of user interface. 1. A method of processing and storing information for easy retrieval , said method comprising:reading a source data record;creating a natural language data record;synthesizing a first natural language narrative of said source data record in said natural language record;generating a set of rational inferences from said source data record;synthesizing a second natural language narrative in said natural language record from said set of rational inferences;storing said natural language data record in a modified natural language database; andindexing and searching said modified natural language database with a text search engine.2. The method of processing and storing information for easy retrieval as set forth in further comprising:creating a simple text conversion from said source data record; andplacing said simple text conversion in said natural language data record.3. The method of processing and storing information for easy retrieval as set forth in further comprising:assigning importance levels to different sections of text in said natural language data record.4. The method of processing and storing information for easy retrieval as set forth in wherein speculative inferences from said set of rational inferences are placed in a ...

Systems and Methods for Aggregation of Online Social Network Content

A server contains an executable program and is in communication with an online social network. The server is accessed by a subscriber on a client system executing an application program interface to communicate with the server in which the server accesses indexes of data maintained on an online social network platform and retrieves the accessed data. The subscriber creates an account on the server. The executable program builds an index of relevant content for that subscriber to retrieve. The data is processed and aggregated on the server through a subscriber-specific relevancy engine on the server and the aggregated data is delivered to the subscriber on the client system in a searchable database. The subscriber may execute a search query on the client system in communication with the server and search query is processed returning relevant results to the user. 1. A computer-implemented method of aggregating data from a social networking platform comprising:receiving user authentication for the social networking platform;retrieving social media content maintained on the social networking platform based on a successful user authentication;aggregating a searchable index, the searchable index comprising relevant content from among the social media content retrieved, each item of the social media content having an author, each of the authors having a relevancy score; andproviding a search engine for searching through the social media content and generating search results, wherein the search results comprise the relevant content, the relevancy score, and at least one facet, and wherein the search results are prioritizable according to the relevancy score and filterable using the at least one facet.2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the relevancy score comprises a personal relevancy score for each author.3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein the personal relevancy score is determined by a number of mentions of the author from a ...

Method and system for providing query using an image

A method and system for providing a query using an image is disclosed. A search keyword is determined using an image and position information of a terminal that are received from the terminal. Search queries associated with the determined search keyword are provided to the terminal. Lower search queries may be provided to the terminal if one of the provided search queries is selected.

PROVIDING INFORMATION RELATING TO A DOCUMENT

A system identifies a document, performs a search to identify web documents relating to an attribute associated with the document, and provides information associated with the web documents and the document. 130-. (canceled)31. A method comprising:receiving, by a computer system and from a client device, selection of a search result of a set of search results; 'the link being associated with an attribute relating to the document;', 'the reference page comprising a link,'}, 'presenting, by the computer system and for display on the client device, a reference page for a document associated with the selected search result,'}receiving, by the computer system and from the client device, selection of the link;performing, by the computer system and based on the received selection of the link, a search to identify documents based on the attribute relating to the document; and 'the second reference page including a second link associated with an additional search relating to the attribute.', 'providing, by the computer system and based on the performed search, information relating to one or more of the identified documents for display on the client device as a second reference page associated with the document,'}32. The method of claim 31 , where the reference page includes at least one of:a description of contents of the document;text associated with one of a jacket, a cover, or a flap associated with the document;bibliographic information associated with the document; oran advertisement.33. The method of claim 31 , where the reference page includes:an excerpt from the document, anda set of links to portions of the document.34. The method of claim 33 , where the set of links references at least one of:a front cover associated with the document,a table of contents associated with the document,an index associated with the document, ora back cover associated with the document.35. The method of claim 31 , where the attribute corresponds to at least one of a title claim 31 , an ...

Search Engine Data Structure

A search engine database may a segmented structure that preserves individual document references and allows updating as well as scalability. A set of segment managers may receive new, updated, or deleted documents and update a set of term matrices from which a published search matrix may be generated. The database may have a very large term dictionary and may use a hash function to create term identifiers without having to look up terms in the dictionary. The database may be maintained by many systems operating in parallel for high scalability.

FILE SEARCH APPARATUS AND METHOD USING TAG GRAPH

A file search apparatus includes a tag graph storage storing a tag graph. The tag graph includes tag nodes with tag words linked thereto, links/edges between pairs of the tag nodes having association relationships, where each tag node has a list of files tagged with the tag word of the tag node, a list of files attached to each of the tag nodes, such that the files are tagged by the corresponding tag words. A tag word searcher configured to search for the tag nodes containing the words from the user, among all tag nodes of the tag graph. A file searcher configured to search a candidate file, linked to tag words contained the tag nodes searched by the tag word searcher, to determine whether the candidate is a desired file. 1. A file search apparatus comprising:a tag graph storage storing a tag graph, wherein the tag graph includes tag nodes with tag words linked thereto, wherein each tag node has a list of files tagged with the tag word contained in the tag node;a tag word searcher configured to search for tag nodes containing tag words provided from the user, among all tag nodes in the tag graph; anda file searcher configured to search a list of files linked to the tag nodes searched by the tag word searcher, to determine whether a desired file is founded among the list of files.2. The file search apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:a file generator configured to generate a new file;a file link generator configured to generate a link, linking the new file to the tag nodes in the tag graph when association words for the new file are contained in the tag nodes in the tag graph, to update the tag graph; anda tag node generator configured to generate a new tag node and link the new file to the new tag node when association words for the new file are not contained in the tag nodes in the tag graph, to update the tag graph with the new tag node.3. A file search method comprising:performing file search using keyword matching;searching tag nodes in a tag graph stored ...

METHOD FOR PROVIDING SEARCH RESULTS INCLUDING RELEVANT LOCATION BASED CONTENT

A search engine considers events and stories described in electronic documents, a location of a searcher/reviewer, and a situs associated with a query and content of the document to determine how/if they should be presented to users as part of relevant search results. 1. A method of responding to a search query to a user with a computing system comprising:a) processing a query from a user including a first search term with the computing system;b) automatically determining a geographic region associated with said user with the computing system; 'wherein said determining is performed by analyzing content of published online news stories from local sources within or proximate to said geographic region with the computing system;', 'c) automatically determining if said first search term relates to a news story describing events or topics associated with said geographic region;'}d) automatically selecting first news content from said local sources relating to said first search term with the computing system when said first search term relates to a news story published within a first time interval;e) presenting search results to said user with the computing system for said query including said first news content in response to said query directed to said first search term.2. The method of further including a step: determining said first news content by analyzing a temporal rank of said news story relative to other stories from set of reference content sources that contain content for said first search term.3. The method of further including a step: verifying said first news content by referencing other sources prior to presenting said first news content.4. The method of wherein said first time interval is a recent time interval of less than an hour.5. The method of further including a step: presenting advertising within said interface based on a state of said one or more events or updates to said event(s)6. The method of further including a step: selecting said first topic ...

METHOD FOR PREDICTING NEWS CONTENT

A news and/or search engine system predicts events and stories based on existing events, stories, etc., extracted from a knowledge domain. These predictions can be used for a number of different purposes, including locating new content and actual event outcomes. 1. A method of predicting content of a news story with a computing system comprising:a) identifying a first event described in first content published in a knowledge domain including one or more social network domains, news content domains, blog domains and/or message board domains;b) automatically determining a plurality of different alternative predicted states for said first event, based on a comparison of characteristics of said first event to characteristics of prior events of a same type;c) automatically generating queries to said knowledge domain and/or at least one search engine to locate published new content associated with said plurality of different predicted states;d) presenting search results or news stories to a user with the computing system which includes at least some of said new published content when such is identified at step (c).2. The method of including a step: automatically determining which of said plurality of different alternative predicted states has actually occurred with the computing system based on analyzing a substance of said new content.3. The method of wherein said determining is based on identifying predicted text and/or phrases relating to said plurality of different alternative predicted states in said new content.4. The method of wherein said comparison step (b) uses templates or patterns for said type of event which are derived from online published content describing said prior events.5. The method of including a step of generating a set of future sources to be consulted for said new content based on predicted changes in a state of said first event.6. The method of wherein step (c) is performed repeatedly after step (b) to identify a first instance of said published ...

USER INTERFACE METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTING AND PRESENTING CONTENT BASED ON USER RELATIONSHIPS

A user-interface method of selecting and presenting a collection of content items based on user navigation and selection actions associated with the content is provided. The method includes associating a relevance weight on a per user basis with content items to indicate a relative measure of likelihood that the user desires the content item. The method includes receiving a user's navigation and selections actions for identifying desired content items, and in response, adjusting the associated relevance weight of the selected content item and group of content items containing the selected item. The method includes, in response to subsequent user input, selecting and presenting a subset of content items and content groups to the user ordered by the adjusted associated relevance weights assigned to the content items and content groups. 1. A user-interface method of selecting and presenting a collection of content items using an incremental search interface , the method comprising:providing access to a set of content items;determining an organizational or social relationship of the user to at least one other person and inferring a likelihood of the user wanting to contact the other person based on the organizational or social relationship;determining a relevance of at least one content item of the set of content items to the other person;associating a relevance weight with the at least one content item, wherein the associated relevance weight is based in part on the likelihood of the user wanting to contact the other person;receiving a sequence of incremental keystrokes from a user of a device, wherein the sequence of incremental keystrokes represents a search query input;in response to each incremental keystroke of the sequence of incremental keystrokes, selecting and presenting a subset of content items to the user as a hierarchy of content items browsable by the user, wherein the content items are ordered at least in part by the associated relevance weights of the ...

Embedded Business Metadata

A methodology is disclosed for improving searches of a distributed Internet network. A distributed Internet network is searched for a particular information type, searching for a field identified using a predetermined identifier indicating that the field comprises information of the particular information type. When the field identified using the predetermined identifier is found, an association of the contents of the field with the search results is made, and repeated using the same predetermined identifier. Information of a particular information type may then be served in a field identified using a predetermined identifier that identifies the field as containing information of the particular information type. 1. A method for searching for data in a distributed Internet network , the method comprising:receiving a searching target from a subscriber, the searching target comprising a plurality of target information items and, associated with each target information item, an indication that the target information item is of one of a plurality of particular information types;receiving a plurality of served information groupings from a plurality of separate information servers located in the distributed Internet network;searching each of the plurality of served information groupings for fields identified using predetermined identifiers standardized among the separate information servers, the predetermined identifiers indicating that the identified fields comprise information of the particular information types associated with the target information items, the predetermined identifiers included in the served information groupings;determining that a first field in a first served information grouping is identified using a first predetermined identifier;determining that a subscription level of the subscriber permits access to the information in the first field;decrypting the information contained in the first field using a private key;determining that the first field ...

CONVERSATIONAL QUESTION AND ANSWER

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for facilitating online conversation. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a search query; identifying, by a search engine, resources that are responsive to the search query, wherein the resources include information that references an online conversation in which a user has submitted questions to be viewed by trusted participants and one or more of the trusted participants has replied to the question, and wherein the trusted participants include the user, one or more advertisers and one or more social network friends of the user; and providing information that identifies the resources for display.

SYSTEM AND METHODS THEREOF FOR DYNAMICALLY UPDATING THE CONTENTS OF A FOLDER ON A DEVICE

A method and system for dynamically updating contents of a folder on a mobile device. The system comprises identifying at least a folder on the mobile device as a dynamic folder; determining at least a context parameter respective of the dynamic folder; searching for applications that can be added to the dynamic folder respective of the at least context parameter; generating an icon respective of each application found by the search; and displaying each icon respective of each application in the dynamic folder. 2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:receiving at least one external parameter; andfiltering the application found by the search based on the at least one external parameter.3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the external parameter characterizes at least one of: a user of the mobile device and the mobile device.4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the context parameter is determined based on at least one of: a name of the dynamic folder claim 1 , and contents of the dynamic folder.5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:identifying a category of each of the at least one application in the dynamic folder; andsetting the context parameter based on the categories of applications in the dynamic folder.6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the search is performed in at least one of: the mobile device claim 1 , a network claim 1 , and a plurality of resources of information claim 1 , wherein the network is at least the Internet claim 1 , and each of the plurality of resources of information is at least one of: a search engine claim 1 , a content provider server claim 1 , a vertical comparison engine claim 1 , a content publisher server claim 1 , and a mobile application installed on the user device.7. The method of claim 6 , wherein searching the network further comprising:searching central repositories of applications.8. The method of claim 6 , wherein each application found by the search includes any one of: a native application and a web application.9. ...

METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT PROVIDING LOCAL SERVICE DISCOVERY WITH BROWSER SEARCH

Embodiments of the invention provide in part a method to conduct a search for information in a network. The method includes operating a user interface of a device to initiate the sending of a search request via a first channel; and indicating via the user interface selectively whether received information from at least one local source via a second channel is to be included as at least a part of the search. The embodiments of the invention further provide a node of a communication system, where the node includes a transmitter for communicating to a receiver of a device during mobility of the device, and where the node is operable for transmitting a predetermined search word set to the receiver for use by the device for composing a search request to a search engine. 1. A method , comprising:sending a search request from an apparatus to a first, remote search engine to perform a search in a network; andincluding local information received from at least one local source and searched by a second, local search engine as at least a part of a result of the search,wherein the at least one local source is external to another apparatus comprising the local search engine.2. A method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:operating a user interface which allows a user to decide selectively whether the local information is to be included as a part of the result of the search.3. A method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the sending the search request comprises sending the search request from the apparatus via a first channel to the first claim 1 , remote search engine claim 1 , and the including the local information comprises including the local information received via at least one second channel.4. A method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first claim 1 , remote search engine is a network search engine for performing search in a network.5. A method as in claim 1 , wherein the search request is sent via a first channel comprising a wireless cellular communication channel ...

Location-Based Searching Using a Search Area That Corresponds to a Geographical Location of a Computing Device

In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and programs for providing location-based information. A geographical location of a mobile computing device is received at a server system. A request for content is received at the server system and from the mobile computing device. A search area that corresponds to the geographical location is selected by the sever system. The search area is selected from among a collection of search areas that correspond to the geographical location. At least one of the search areas in the collection is geographically nested within at least one other of the search areas. A search result that is most-relevantly ranked for the selected search area is determined by the server system. Content that represents the determined search result is provided by the server system and for receipt by the mobile computing device.

METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR SEARCHING CONTENT

Embodiments of methods and apparatuses for searching contents, including structured search for atomic search expressions, including proximately associated atomic search expressions, are described herein. Embodiments may use tree structures (or more generally, graph structures), layout structures, and/or other information to capture within search results relevant content, include sub-document constituents, to reduce the incidence of false positives within search results, and/or to improve the accuracy of rankings within search results. Embodiments may use distance and/or scoring functions to generate scores for the structures to indicate relevance, including usage of local geometry, and linear iteration over portions of the content at a level to capture potential of a portion to influence other portions of the level, and influence received by a portion from the other portions of the level. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. 2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the atomic search term comprises a plurality of words.3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the structure comprises one or more strings of words claim 1 , one or more markup strings claim 1 , one or more trees corresponding to parsed markup claim 1 , one or more deduced semantic trees claim 1 , one or more database records or one or more database objects.4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the content comprises one or more web pages of one or more web applications claim 1 , one or more XML documents in one or more XML repositories claim 1 , one or more documents in one or more document corpora claim 1 , or one or more database objects in one or more databases.5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the structure comprises a tree structure corresponding to parsed markup of the content claim 1 , annotated with measurement information derived from layout structures associated with the content.6. The method of claim 1 , wherein for portions of the content in a substructure at a level (N claim 1 , . . . claim 1 , ...

Search and Retrieval Methods and Systems of Short Messages Utilizing Messaging Context and Keyword Frequency

Systems and methods of identifying and retrieving messages that satisfy a search query using the context of the message and term frequencies are provided. One embodiment includes identifying at least one category relevant to the search query, wherein a plurality of scored keywords are associated with each category, selecting at least one of the scored keywords that is relevant to an identified category, performing a plurality of searches of messages from a social networking messaging service to retrieve messages, where at least one search includes retrieving messages based on the original search query and one of the selected scored keywords, scoring the retrieved messages with respect to each of the at least one identified categories using at least the scored keywords relevant to each category, and returning at least the message with the highest score as the search result.

MAP-BASED ITEM INFORMATION NETWORK

A method for following information about an item is disclosed. The method can include selecting an item; setting parameters for the item; setting location preferences for the item; setting notification preferences for the item; and setting communication preferences for the item. The item can be selected by searching a network using a map-based search interface, and information can be received through the network by at least one of notifications or messages based on at least one of the item parameters, the location preferences, the notification preferences, or the communication preferences. 1. A method for following information about an item , comprising:selecting an item;setting parameters for the item;setting location preferences for the item;setting notification preferences for the item;setting communication preferences for the item;wherein the item is selected by searching a network using a map-based search interface, and wherein information is received through the network by at least one of notifications or messages based on at least one of the item parameters, the location preferences, the notification preferences, or the communication preferences.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the item is at least one of a product claim 1 , type of product claim 1 , service claim 1 , type of service claim 1 , business claim 1 , type of business claim 1 , location claim 1 , range of locations claim 1 , or informational post.3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the item is a product or type of product claim 1 , and the parameters include at least one of size claim 1 , color claim 1 , condition claim 1 , age claim 1 , price or range of prices.4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the item is a service or type of service claim 1 , and the parameters include at least one of time or range of times available claim 1 , or price or range of prices.5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the item is a business or type of business claim 1 , and the parameters include at least one of opening or ...

SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION PERFORMANCE VALUATION

A way to promote a web site is via search engine optimization (SEO). Traditionally, SEO practitioners have charged a fixed fee for performing SEO services. An analyzer can determine a first probability that a search query for a campaign term will result in a referral from a search engine, determine second probabilities that are associated with a plurality of particular positions in a search engine results page, combine the search query volume information, the first probability, and the second probability for the position with a monetary value to generate an organic price, combine the organic prices for the plurality of positions to value the SEO services for the campaign term. The analyzer evaluates the effectiveness of SEO activities and can generate a volume-based value for SEO services. In addition, disclosed techniques can also be used to identify candidate terms for future SEO activities. 1. A method of identifying terms suitable for search engine optimization (SEO) for a site , the method comprising:determining a volume of search queries for each term in a set of terms, wherein the set of terms comprises at least a plurality of terms used in search engine queries to access the site;counting referrals to the site for each term in the set of terms;computing rates of referrals for each term in the set of terms based at least partly on the counted referrals and the volume of search queries; andidentifying one or more terms in the set of terms that are underrepresented relative to one or more other terms in the set of terms, wherein the one or more underrepresented terms are identified as being suitable for SEO;wherein the determining, the counting, and the computing are performed, at least in part, by one or more computing devices.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the one or more terms in the set of terms that are underrepresented comprises:identifying that the one or more underrepresented terms have rates of referral outside of a selected statistical ...

System for Search and Customized Information Updating of New Patents and Research, and Evaluation of New Research Projects' and Current Patents' Potential

The embodiments herein relate to intellectual property management and, more particularly, to a tool for searching and evaluating relative commercial potential of an invention. A user may select any of the services such as search, draft, innovation evaluation, commercial potential evaluation and so on. A search tool automatically generates a key string based on user inputs, searches in associated databases, organizes search results and delivers to the user. The keywords are improved or modified automatically by the search tool so as to improve subsequent search results. The keywords are improved by considering parameters such as field of search, search history of the user and so on. Further, new keywords are added to a dictionary so as to improve search strings each time. Drafting tools may be used to draft patent applications in specific format. Further, a research commercialization evaluator is used to analyze commercial potential of an invention. 1. A method for performing a scholarly search using a processing server , said method comprises:processing a search query to identify at least one of a keyword using a search tool;identifying at least one of a class and subclass corresponding to said identified keyword using said search tool;fetching additional words from a dictionary that matches at least one of said identified class, subclass and keyword using said search tool;framing a key string using at least one of said identified keywords and said fetched additional words using said search tool;searching in at least one of a plurality of databases using said framed key string using said search tool; anddisplaying search results to said user using an interface module.2. The method as in claim 1 , wherein said identifying at least one of said class and subclass further comprises comparing said identified keywords with said dictionary using said search tool.3. The method as in claim 2 , wherein new keywords are added to said dictionary using said search tool to ...

INFORMATION PROVISIONING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVISIONING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM

An information provisioning device () presents more appropriate search results to the user while using an existing search function. A storage part () stores taboo character strings for identification information of a search target and stores identification information as one of those already searched or already selected by the user in the past. An acquisition part () acquires search results consisting of matched information containing identification information of a search target satisfying the query. A correction part () corrects the search results in regard to matched information based on whether a taboo character string for the identification information is contained in the query. A presentation part () presents the corrected search results to the user. A selection reception part () receives a command to select matched information from the user. 1. An information provisioning device , comprising:a query reception part receiving input of a query;a storage part storing taboo character strings in association with identification information of search targets;an acquisition part acquiring search results consisting of matched information containing identification information of a search target satisfying said query among said search targets;a correction part correcting said search results when matched information contained in said search results satisfies a given condition;a presentation part presenting the matched information contained in said corrected search results; anda selection reception part receiving a selection command on said presented matched information,wherein said storage part stores identification information contained in the matched information constituting said acquired search results as identification information already searched, and identification information contained in the matched information selected with said selection command as identification information already selected; andsaid given condition is satisfied when a taboo character string is ...

Automatic Dialing

In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for providing search results automatically to a user of a computing device. A spoken input provided by a user to a computing device is received. The spoken input is transmitted to a computer server system that is remote from the computing device. Search result information that is responsive to the spoken input is receiving by the computing device and in response to the transmitted spoken input. An alert is provided to the user that the device will connect the user to a target of the search result information if the user does not intervene to stop the connecting of the user. The user is connected to the target of the search result information based on a determination that the user has not intervened to stop the connecting of the user. 1. A computer-implemented method for automatic telephone calling , the method comprising:receiving a query at a computing system and from a computing device that is remote from the computing system;determining whether the query is for causing the remote computing device to call a telephone number automatically;providing the query to a particular search engine system;receiving, from the particular search engine system, one or more search results that are responsive to the received query; andproviding, to the remote computing device, a particular telephone number that corresponds to a most-prominently ranked of the one or more search results that are from the search engine system, so as to cause the remote computing device to call the particular telephone number automatically without the remote computing device having received user input subsequent to the computing device transmitting the query to the computing system.2. The computer-implemented method of :wherein the received query includes recorded voice information; andfurther comprising converting, by the computing system, the voice information into textual form, ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY ORGANIZING AND CLASSIFYING BUSINESSES ON THE WORLD-WIDE WEB

A method and search engine for classifying a source publishing a document on a portion of a network, includes steps of electronically receiving a document, based on the document, determining a source which published the document, and assigning a code to the document based on whether data associated with the document published by the source matches with data contained in a database. An intelligent geographic- and business topic-specific resource discovery system facilitates local commerce on the World-Wide Web and also reduces search time by accurately isolating information for end-users. Distinguishing and classifying business pages on the Web by business categories using Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes is achieved through an automatic iterative process. 1. A method of classifying a source publishing a document on a portion of a network , comprising steps of:electronically receiving a document;based on the document, determining a source which published the document; andassigning a code to said document based on whether data associated with the document published by the source matches with data contained in a database.2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said portion of said network comprises a graphical multimedia portion of said network claim 1 , said source comprises a Web site publishing a home page claim 1 , and said network comprises the Internet.3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein said graphical multimedia portion of said network comprises the World-Wide Web (WWW) and said document comprises a Web document claim 2 ,wherein said step of assigning a code includes determining that the Web site comprises a first entity when there is a match of the Web site with said data, and determining that the Web site comprises a second entity when there is no match of the Web site with said data.4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said step of determining a source includes:extracting a domain name from a predetermined uniform resources ...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING GEO-SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL OF ELECTRONIC POINT-OF-INTEREST RECORDS USING A BIG INDEX

Methods and systems for providing a geo-search engine capability for large point-of-interest record datasets are disclosed. These methods and systems employ a Partition-by-Query index containing key-values pairs corresponding to keys reflecting concept-ordered geo-search phrases and values reflecting ordered lists of point-of-interest record references that are responsive to the concept-ordered geo-search phrase in a corresponding key. A large Partition-by-Query index may be partitioned across multiple servers depending on the size of the index, or the size of the index may be reduced by compressing query-references pairs into clusters. The methods and systems described herein may provide suggestions and spelling corrections to the user, thereby improving the user's geo-search engine experience while meeting user expectations for geo-search quality and responsiveness. 1. A method for generating a response to a geo-search query by a computer user to search a set of electronic point-of-interest records , the method comprising:generating, by a computing device, a geo-search query index based on the set of electronic point-of-interest records, wherein the geo-search query index comprises a first set of key-value pairs, each key-value pair comprising a key and one or more reference values, each key comprising at least one token from an expected geo-search query generated based on the set of electronic point-of-interest records, and each reference value corresponding to a point-of-interest record associated with the at least one token;parsing, by the computing device, a geo-search query from a computer user into at least one token;generating, by the computing device, an ordered geo-search query from the parsed geo-search query comprising tokens ordered by increasing frequency within the set of electronic point-of-interest records; andproviding, by the computing device, point-of-interest record references responsive to the geo-search query from the computer user based on ...

SYSTEM OF PROPOSING CREATIVE KEYWORD AND METHOD OF PROPOSING CREATIVE KEYWORD USING THE SAME

A system of proposing a creative keyword and a method thereof are provided, in which the system includes a search server which receives the request for search from a user terminal, analyzes in a real-time basis energy consumption of coordinate regions according to a plurality of information searched by an extracted user's keyword, and modifies association among the searched words by increasing or decreasing accessibility to associated searched words related to the request for search based on the analysis, wherein the user terminal which requests search by transmitting the user's search keyword to the search server, and receives and displays on a screen the resultant associated words. 1. A method of proposing a creative keyword on an internet search site , the method comprising:first setting step of setting coordinate regions of a plurality of memories of a database of a search server, and setting a plurality of information into a basic unit of network;modifying step of modifying user-inputted information at the search server into the basic unit of network;requesting step of retrieving from the database, information including at least (n) number of regions of the network coordinate regions of the basic unit, according to the user-inputted information at the search server;second setting step of overlapping the information including the at least (n) number of network regions, and setting a first limit region at a region including less than (m) number of network regions;comparing step of comparing, at a processor, energy consumptions of the first limit region and neighboring regions; andaccessibility increasing/decreasing step of proposing the users with an associated search word including less than the (m) number of regions according to the result of comparison, and increasing or decreasing accessibility to the associated search word depending on whether the proposed search word is selected by the users or not.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first setting step ...

Online application system and method for implementing the same

An online application system and a method for implementing an online application system are disclosed. A method for implementing the online application system includes a) receiving a user search request from a user browser; b) searching for a match according to the search request and obtaining an online application that matches with the search request to form a search result page; and c) presenting the online application before the user browser in a form as a canvas page which is embedded in the search result page and is directly accessible from the search result page. The present disclosure also provides an online application system. The technical solutions disclosed herein allow a user to directly search out an online application via a search engine without a need to click multi-level linkages, thereby providing a quick and convenient search process which enhances the users' experiences with networks.

System & Method For Acquiring Online Data By Mimicking Human Behavior

A networked computer system includes a number of different data acquisition components for obtaining case data from an online web portal. The acquisition scanner can be configured in a number of different ways, including so as to imitate a human browser behavior, initiate separate instantiations for better case control, and maintain a download log to improve efficiency and performance. 1. A computing system for automatically acquiring case records comprising:a case application scanner routine, which is adapted to run as a process as an independent thread on the computing system; said scanner routine further being configured to control an instantiation of an Internet browser for retrieving case records at a database accessible through a query page of a web portal;wherein said web portal case records are not accessible until a human interactive proof test has been satisfied;an access control routine configured to cooperate with said case application scanner routine which is adapted to engage with and satisfy said human interactive proof test and permit access to said web portal case records by said case application scanner routine;said scanner routine being further configured to interact with tabs, lists, links and buttons so as to retrieve said case record, and case record data from any and all pages associated with said first case including a data presentation page for said case records;wherein the system uses an independent and separate case application scanner routine for each case record to be scanned.2. The system of wherein said scanner routine is adapted to select tabs claim 1 , links and buttons at a rate that is comparable to a human selection rate.3. The system of wherein said query page includes only a query field that permits only a single parameter to be specified for a query used for locating said case records claim 1 , and only one case record can be retrieved for said query.4. The system of further including a scheduler routine configured to manage ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADDING IDENTITY TO WEB RANK

Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer program products for generating search results comprising web documents with associated expert information. One embodiment of a method for generating such search results includes receiving one or more search queries, selecting one of the one or more search queries, determining one or more categories of web documents responsive to the selected search query and crawling a web graph of linked web documents to identify one or more web documents tagged as within the one or more categories responsive to the selected search query. The method further includes generating a result set of the one or more web documents identified as within the one or more categories responsive to the selected search query, ranking the result set and generating a list of ranked search results responsive to the selected search. 1. A method for supplementing a web graph of linked web documents , the method comprising:identifying a web graph of web documents linked by one or more categories;selecting one of one or more experts for one or more categories of web documents;selecting a given category of the one or more categories for which the selected expert is an expert for;identifying one or more additional web documents that have been tagged by the selected expert;determining the category for the one or more additional web documents that have been tagged by the selected expert;determining whether the category for the one or more additional web documents that have been tagged by the selected expert is the same as the given category for which the selected expert is an expert for;assigning a proxy document to the selected expert where the category for the one or more additional web documents that have been tagged by the selected expert is the same as the given category for which the selected expert is an expert for; andlinking the proxy document to the one or more additional web documents that have been tagged by the selected ...

Method and Apparatus for Conducting a Search

The invention describes a query server and a computer-implemented method to provide a search service for finding online content. The query server may be incorporated in a system to provide the search service. 1. A query server to provide a search service for finding online content , the query server being arranged toreceive a search query from a user,identify a set of sources of online content associated with said user,output said search query to said identified set of sources to generate search results from within said identified set of sources, andsend said search results to said user.2. A query server according to which is connected to a database storing sets of sources associated with a user which were previously created by said user and which is arranged to identify the set of sources from said database by receiving identification of said set of sources from said user.3. A query server according to arranged to identify the set of sources by prompting the user to define the sources in response to receiving the search query.4. A query server according to arranged to prompt the user to define the sources from at least one of a comprehensive set of sources claim 3 , a subset of sources selected by the query server and a set of sources which a user has previously grouped together.5. A query server according to arranged to identify the set of sources by prompting the user to define the sources prior to receiving the search query.6. A query server according to which is connected to a user interface on a user device whereby a plurality of sources are displayed on said user interface and said query server receives a user selection of at least one displayed source to be included in said identified set of sources.7. A query server according to whereby the plurality of sources comprises at least one of a comprehensive set of sources claim 6 , a subset of sources selected by the query server and a set of sources which a user has previously grouped together.8. A query server ...

DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED DATABASE KEYWORD SEARCHING

A method performed by a mobile communications device, including: populating a central database on the device with a title for each of a plurality of software modules installed on the device and associating each title with its software module; populating the central database with at least one keyword associated with each of the plurality of software modules and associating each keyword with its software module; receiving at the device a search query; displaying at the device a search result identifying at least one of the software modules installed on the device having either a title or one or more associated keywords matching the search query; and in response to receiving at the device a selection of a software module identified in the search result, activating the selected software module. 1. A method performed by a mobile communications device , comprising:populating a central database on the device with a title for each of a plurality of software modules installed on the device and associating each title with its software module;populating the central database with at least one keyword associated with each of the plurality of software modules and associating each keyword with its software module;receiving at the device a search query;displaying at the device a search result identifying at least one of the software modules installed on the device having either a title or one or more associated keywords matching the search query; andin response to receiving at the device a selection of a software module identified in the search result, activating the selected software module.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein:at least one of the plurality of software modules has one or more associated actions it is capable of performing;at least one of the actions has at least one keyword associated with it;the search result displayed at the device identifies at least one action having an associated keyword matching the search query; andreceiving at the device a selection of a ...

NETWORKED SERVICES VIA INTERMEDIARIES

A networked intermediary provides source information together with enhancements to an end user to combine or enhance the user's networked experience. Embodiments relate to a networked intermediary for search engines and a networked electronic information provision system for products with statistical complexity. The latter has a screen support system which provides to end users a three part screen, including an alert screen part, a trading screen part and a statistical screen part. The alert screen part provides users with current and past alerts regarding one or more products. The trading screen part provides a trading screen to allow a user to view and interact with current trading positions of one or more products and the statistical screen part displays statistical parameters relating to one or more products. 1. A networked electronic information provision system for products with statistical complexity comprising:a screen support system configured to provide to each of a plurality of end users over a network from a first networked source, a three part screen, the three part screen comprising an alert screen part, a trading screen part and a statistical screen part, the alert screen part providing users with current and past alerts regarding at least one first selected product from a second networked source, the trading screen part providing a trading screen to allow a user to view and interact with current trading positions of at least one second selected product from a third networked source, and the statistical screen part presenting at least one statistical parameter relating to at least one third selected product.2. The networked electronic information provision system for products with statistical complexity according to claim 1 , wherein said first claim 1 , second and third selected products are a single product.3. The networked electronic information provision system for products with statistical complexity according to claim 1 , wherein said ...

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Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a first search query from a user device; receiving search results for the first search query provided by a search engine, wherein each of the search results identifies a respective resource; determining from the search results that the first search query relates to a first entity of a first entity type; determining that one or more entities of a second entity type have a predetermined relationship with the first entity; and transmitting information identifying the one or more entities of the second type to the user device as part of a response to the first search query. 1. A method performed by one or more computers , the method comprising:receiving a first search query from a user device;receiving search results for the first search query provided by a search engine, wherein each of the search results identifies a respective resource;determining from the search results that the first search query relates to a first entity of a first entity type;determining that one or more entities of a second entity type have a predetermined relationship with the first entity; andtransmitting information identifying the one or more entities of the second type to the user device as part of a response to the first search query.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first entity type is the same as the second entity type.3. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining that one or more entities of the second entity type have a predetermined relationship with the first entity comprises:accessing an index that maps each of a plurality of entities to one or more related entities and identifies a relationship between the entity and one or more related entities.4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:obtaining data identifying the first entity and the first entity type;obtaining data identifying the one or more entities of the second entity type and the relationship between ...

ASSOCIATIVE SEARCH ENGINE

This invention relates to an advertisement machine which provides advertisements to a user searching for desired information within a data network. The machine receives, from a user, a search request including a search argument corresponding to the desired information and searches, based upon the received search argument, a first database having data network related information to generate search results. It also correlates the received search argument to a particular advertisement in a second database having advertisement related information. The search results together with the particular advertisement are provided by the machine to the user. 1. A data processing device comprising data processing hardware , data processing software , a communication interface , and a user interface , the data processing device configured to:provide to a database search engine and an associative search engine at least one search argument and user profile information, the at least one search argument being based on user interaction with the data processing device;receive from the database search engine at least one search result, the at least one search result being based on the at least one search argument;receive from the associative search engine at least one associated result, the at least one associated result being based on the at least one search argument and the user profile information; andprovide the at least one search result and the at least one associated result to the user interface.2. The data processing device of claim 1 , wherein the data processing hardware and the data processing software are configured to maintain the user profile information on the data processing device.3. The data processing device of claim 2 , wherein the data processing hardware claim 2 , the data processing software and the communication interface are configured to transmit the user profile information from the data processing device to the associative search engine via the communication ...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND ANALYZING INTERNET USERS

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for generating reports enhancing an understanding of Internet users based on their generated content and actions taken by others in response to the generated content. 1. A server system comprising:a network interface that receives product, service, or customer data from a client, receives a query from the client, and returns a report of social profiles to the client;a memory storing a searchable social profile datastore having one or more social profiles; the API receives the product, service, or customer data from the client via the network interface, receives a query from the client via the network interface, and returns a report of social profiles to the client in response to the query via the interface,', 'the crawler module collects content and raw data from the Internet based on the product, service, or customer data,', 'the parser parses the content and raw data into terms,', 'the analysis module computes one or more of the following for each term: a reach value, a relevance value, and an impact value, and', computes scores for one or more social profiles for each term based on the one or more of reach value, relevance value, and impact value; and', 'adds to or updates the one or more social profiles with the scores., 'the scoring module], 'a processor running an API, a crawler module, a parser, an analysis module, and a scoring module,'}2. The server system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more social profiles include at least fields describing: location and contact information.3. The server system of claim 1 , wherein the report includes values for reach claim 1 , relevance claim 1 , and impact associated with at least one social profile.4. The server system of claim 1 , wherein the report includes at least one context associated with at least one social profile.5. The server system of claim 1 , wherein the analysis module comprises:a compute reach module;a compute relevance module; anda compute ...

Systems and Methods for an Expert-Informed Information Acquisition Engine Utilizing an Adaptive Torrent-Based Heterogeneous Network Solution

A system for operating an expert-informed information acquisition engine utilizing an adaptive torrent-based heterogeneous network solution includes a memory storing computer-executable instructions; at least one processor configured to access the at least one memory and execute the computer-executable instructions to: receive user-defined tags associated with a first user; access interaction data associated with one or more second users and the first user; receive user-defined tags associated with one or more second users; identify a lexicon based on the user-defined tags; receive a query from the first user, wherein the query; rank one or more documents based on the lexicon; and display one or more documents based on the lexicon, with already-seen results removed. 1. A system for operating an expert-informed information acquisition engine utilizing an adaptive torrent-based heterogeneous network solution , comprising:a memory storing computer-executable instructions; receive user-defined tags associated with a first user;', 'access interaction data associated with one or more second users and the first user;', 'receive user-defined tags associated with one or more second users;', 'identify a lexicon based on the user-defined tags;', 'receive a query from the first user, wherein the query;', 'rank one or more documents based on the lexicon;', 'display one or more documents based on the lexicon., 'a processor configured to access the at least one memory and execute the computer-executable instructions to2. The system of claim 1 , the interaction data comprising inquiries claim 1 , page views claim 1 , purchases claim 1 , shares claim 1 , replies claim 1 , messages claim 1 , recommendations claim 1 , blog entries claim 1 , modification of a wish list claim 1 , or a combination thereof associated with the one or more lexicon terms.3. The system of claim 1 , the one or more user-defined tags comprising association of one or more keywords to a document.4. The system of ...

MULTIMODAL NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE FOR FACETED SEARCH

Search interfaces, systems, and methods are presented. Contemplated search interfaces allow electronic devices to capture multi-modal interaction data, including audio signals. A dialog interface capable of interacting with a user processes the interaction data and communicates with a user to establish a desirable query interpretation. Further, the dialog interface can identify a target search engine for a corresponding query based on modalities of the interaction data beyond the data represented by the audio signal. 1. A search interface comprising:an electronic device comprising a plurality of interfaces, the interfaces collectively capable of receiving multimodal input including audio signals; and obtain an audio signal representing audio data of a spoken utterance from the plurality of interfaces;', 'obtain a second signal representing a modality other than audio data from the plurality of interfaces;', 'map the audio signal and second signal to a query interpretation by correlating audio signal and second signal to a plurality of data facets;', 'construct proposed search criteria representing the query interpretation and including alternative values for each data facet of the plurality of data facets;', 'present the proposed search criteria, including the alternative values, to a user via the electronic device;', 'receive at least one selected value from the presented alternative values;', 'identify a targeted search engine having an indexing system based on the at least one selected value, the second signal, and the query interpretation;', 'translate the query interpretation to a targeted query as a function the audio signal, second signal, and the at least one selected value, the targeted query constructed according to an indexing system of the target search engine;', 'cause the targeted query to be submitted to the target search engine; and', 'enable the electronic device to present search results from the target search engine response to submission of the ...

Method and System for Incrementally Selecting and Providing Relevant Search Engines in Response to a User Query

Methods and systems for incrementally selecting and providing relevant search engines in response to a user query. A method of incrementally selecting and providing relevant search engines is based in part on identifying a set of search engines associated with corresponding metadata, receiving a partial search query entered by the user of a device, inferring after each user keypress a set of potential full queries intended by the user, using the potential full queries and the search engine metadata to identify a set of relevant search engines, and for each of these search engines, providing a direct link to launch a relevant query in the search engine. The user input may be either ambiguous, or erroneous, and may be entered using an input-constrained device.

Minimizing Visibility of Stale Content in Web Searching Including Revising Web Crawl Intervals of Documents

A method includes comparing a first instance with a second instance of a document in a plurality of documents. The first instance is obtained from a remote location at a specified time before the second instance is obtained from the remote location, and (i) the specified time is determined in accordance with a first crawl interval associated with the document, (ii) each document in the plurality of documents is assigned to a tier in a plurality of tiers, each tier having a distinct associated range of web crawl intervals, and (iii) the first crawl interval is assigned a first tier. The method also includes computing a second crawl interval for the document, which is a function of the document comparison; and determining whether the second crawl interval is in the first tier. When the second crawl interval is not, the first document is reassigned to another tier. 1. A method for scheduling a document crawl interval , comprising:on a computer system having one or more processors and a memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors: (i) the specified time is determined in accordance with a first crawl interval associated with the document,', '(ii) each document in the plurality of documents is assigned to a tier in a plurality of tiers, each tier in the plurality of tiers having a distinct associated range of web crawl intervals, and', '(iii) the first crawl interval is assigned a first tier in the plurality of tiers; and, 'comparing a first instance of a document in a plurality of documents with a second instance of the document, thereby obtaining a document comparison, wherein the first instance of the document is obtained from a remote location at a specified time before the second instance of the document is obtained from the remote location and wherein'}computing a second crawl interval for the document, wherein the second crawl interval is a function of the document comparison; anddetermining whether the second crawl interval is ...

Web Crawler Scheduler that Utilizes Sitemaps from Websites

Systems and methods for scheduling documents for crawling are disclosed. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining sitemap information for a plurality of websites; and analyzing the sitemap information to identify a website, in the plurality of websites. The website has sitemap information that is at least potentially out of date. The method also includes updating the sitemap information for the identified website by downloading updated sitemap information for the identified website; and scheduling documents for crawling in accordance with the updated sitemap information for the identified website. 1. A method of scheduling documents for crawling , performed on a computer system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors , the method comprising:obtaining sitemap information for a plurality of websites;analyzing the sitemap information to identify a website, in the plurality of websites, having sitemap information that is at least potentially out of date;updating the sitemap information for the identified website by downloading updated sitemap information for the identified website; andscheduling documents for crawling in accordance with the updated sitemap information for the identified website.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein a respective website in the plurality of websites includes one or more documents claim 1 , and wherein the one or more documents are stored using a hierarchical structure.3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the hierarchical structure is a tree structure.4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the sitemap information includes one or more sitemaps claim 1 , wherein each sitemap in the one or more sitemaps corresponds to a website in the plurality of websites claim 1 , and wherein each sitemap in the one or more sitemaps is generated using (i) an access log claim 1 , (ii) a pre-made URL list claim 1 , and (iii) information obtained from a content management system ...

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRIGGERING WEB CRAWLING BASED ON REGISTRY DATA

A method of triggering crawling of a domain includes receiving information related to a domain from a registrar and processing the information related to the domain. The method also includes storing the processed information in a registry zone file and forming a list of registry data based on the processed information. The list of registry data comprises a subset of the registry zone file. The method farther includes crawling one or more of the domains in the list of registry data. 1. A method of triggering crawling of a domain , the method comprising:receiving information related to a domain from a registrar;processing the information related to the domain;storing the processed information in a registry zone file;forming a list of registry data based on the processed information, wherein the list of registry data comprises a subset of the registry zone file; andcrawling one or more of the domains in the list of registry data.2. The method of wherein the registrar is one of a plurality of registrars associated with a shared registration system.3. The method of wherein the domain information is received in accordance with EPP.4. The method of wherein the domain information is related to addition claim 1 , deletion claim 1 , or transfer of a domain.5. The method of wherein the registry zone file comprises a nameserver for the domain and an IP address for the nameserver.6. The method of further comprising providing the list of registry data as an accessible resource.7. The method of wherein providing the list of registry data as an accessible resource comprises storing the list of registry data on an FTP server accessible to third parties.8. The method of further comprising:establishing a threshold value for domain resolution requests;determining that a number of resolution requests for a domain in a predetermined time period is greater than the threshold value; andadding the domain to the list of registry data.9. The method of further comprising sorting the list of ...

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NON-EPHEMERAL SEARCH

A method and a system for providing a non-ephemeral search to a user are provided. When a user query is received, a content notification request is launched to web pages that are specific to the user query. Subsequently, search results are provided to the user when the content specific to the user query is available in these web pages. 1. A method for providing a non-ephemeral search to a user , the method comprising:receiving a user query;launching a content notification request to web pages that are specific to the user query; andproviding search results to the user, when the content specific to the user query is available in the web pages.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the launching of the content notification request comprises:generating, by an agent, context sensitive crawlers for identifying initial search results provided by a search engine;creating, by the agent, an index that is specific to the user query after ranking the identified search results; andlaunching, by the agent, the content notification request, which is specific to the user query, to web pages indexed by the index.3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:searching the user query based on a context associated with the user query, wherein the context is applied on the index created by the agent.4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the context associated with the user query comprises at least one of a user identity claim 3 , query search strings claim 3 , filters claim 3 , and metadata.5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the user identity comprises at least one of an e-mail IDentification (ID) claim 4 , a contact number claim 4 , and an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the user claim 4 , wherein the agent provides the search results specific to the user query using the user identity.6. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:dividing, by the agent, the user query into a plurality of sub-queries, wherein the agent initiates a search for sub-queries based on the context associated with ...

System And Method For A Self-Configuring Question Answering System

Question Answering systems can be costly and time-consuming to configure for a particular knowledge base. The proposed Question Answering receives an initial knowledge base, receives user queries without any further configuration, and self-configures based on user feedback. In one embodiment, a method of customizing a question answering system can include searching a plurality of articles based on a user query from a user received via a computer network. The method can further include delivering a set of articles, based on the searching, to the user via the computer network. The method can additionally include receiving user feedback on the set of articles from the user via the computer network. The method can also include associating a given article from among the set of articles with the user query based on the user feedback. In this manner, the proposed question answering system saves the customer resources otherwise spent on configuration.

DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM WITH ON-DEMAND AND PRIORITIZED DATA FETCHING

A networked computer system is configured to obtain case data from an online web portal dynamically and on-demand. Data acquisition modules can be configured to prefetch cases predicted to be of interest to users by a separate prediction module, and to resolve access control pages on the latter's behalf to reduce latency. The system also can be configured to exploit existing data connections to piggyback and retrieve additional data items likely to be of interest. 1. A computing system for automatically expediting acquisition of case records from a web portal which includes an access control page requiring a human interactive proof to be satisfied prior to allowing access to the case records through an online database , the system comprising:one or more case acquisition worker routines executing on the computing system which are configured to retrieve case records through a first data link by automatically providing a query including on one or more search parameters inserted in a query page of said web portal for the online database;each of said case acquisition worker routines further cooperating with an access control routine which is responsible for satisfying said human interactive proof test at the access control page to enable said first data link to said query page;a case queue monitor routine executing on the computing system and configured to invoke and control said one or more case acquisition worker modules;wherein said case queue monitor routine is configured to attempt to maintain at least one active link to said web portal query page using said one or more case acquisition worker routines;a case requesting routine executing on the computing system and configured to receive and process a user first request for one or more of said case records from a web application or application program interface call;wherein said case requesting routine cooperates with said case queue monitor routine and said one or more case acquisition worker routines to provide ...

Filtered Search Query Data for Context and User Intent within a Location-Based Search Engine

A single search system that returns relevant search results for a user search query by identifying user intent and context implied therein. The inventive system supports POI and address searches initiated from a single search box only. Search query data is input in to a single search box on a single search client to initiate a search for an arbitrary piece of data. Meta-data concerning a nature of a search is not provided to the single search system. A search servlet on a single search server uses an ordered series of filter methods to progressively extract specific aspects of user intent from a freeform search query, and accumulate intent information within a context shared by all filters. The single search system determines a data corpus to search based on context provided in a user search query. Relevant search results are returned to the single search client in a search response. 1. A single search system that filters search query data for context and user intent within a location based search engine , comprising:a single search box to accept user search query data;a single search client to filter said user search query data and display search results for said search query data; anda search servlet to retrieve and return relevant search results for said user search query data.2. The single search system that filters search query data for context and user intent within a location based search engine according to claim 1 , wherein:said single search box is a standalone text input field.3. The single search system that filters search query data for context and user intent within a location based search engine according to claim 1 , wherein:said single search box is unpaired with a ‘where’ field.4. The single search system that filters search query data for context and user intent within a location based search engine according to claim 1 , wherein:said single search box does not require meta-data identifying a search type.5. The single search system that filters ...

Company network

Method and arrangement for Connecting Business using a database and search & matching technology for aiding companies in finding and maintaining relationships with customers, partners and other contacts so as to improve efficiency. This is performed by continuously searching the web sites including company web sites, official registers, financial registers, news, blogs, social networks and feedback from users. This is filtered and matched through advanced search and matching technology and published in a social media with corresponding communication, information sharing and marketing services.

MANAGING SEARCH-ENGINE-OPTIMIZATION CONTENT IN WEB PAGES

A method for managing the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) content of web pages is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method includes providing a set of web pages organized in a hierarchical structure. Each web page has an SEO content pattern associated therewith. The method establishes an inheritance scheme for the hierarchical structure such that the SEO content patterns of parent web pages are inherited by children web pages. The method further enables a user to override the inheritance scheme for selected web pages such that the SEO content patterns of the selected web pages override the SEO content patterns of their respective parent web pages. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also disclosed. 1. A method for managing the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) content of web pages , the method comprising:providing a set of web pages organized in a first hierarchical structure, each web page having an SEO content pattern associated therewith;establishing an inheritance scheme for the first hierarchical structure such that the SEO content pattern of a parent web page is inherited by a child web page downstream from the parent web page; andenabling a user to override the inheritance scheme for a selected web page such that the SEO content pattern of the selected web page overrides the SEO content pattern from its respective parent web page.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the selected web page is also a parent web page.3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising enabling children of the selected web page to inherit the SEO content of the selected web page.4. The method of claim 2 , further comprising enabling children of the selected web page to override the SEO content of the selected web page.5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising assigning priorities to the SEO content patterns of parent web pages in the first hierarchical structure.6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising claim 5 , in the event a child web page inherits SEO ...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS USING A BIG INDEX

Methods and systems for providing a search engine capability for large datasets are disclosed. These methods and systems employ a Partition-by-Query index containing key-values pairs corresponding to keys reflecting concept-ordered search phrases and values reflecting ordered lists of document references that are responsive to the concept-ordered search phrase in a corresponding key. A large Partition-by-Query index may be partitioned across multiple servers depending on the size of the index, or the size of the index may be reduced by compressing query-references pairs into clusters. The methods and systems described herein may to provide suggestions and spelling corrections to the user, thereby improving the user's search engine experience while meeting user expectations for search quality and responsiveness. 1. A method for generating a response to a query by a computer user to search a set of electronic documents , the method comprising:generating, by a computing device, a query index based on the set of electronic documents, wherein the query index comprises a first set of key-value pairs, each key-value pair comprising a key and one or more reference values, each key comprising at least one token from an expected query generated based on the set of electronic documents, and each reference value corresponding to a document associated with the at least one token;parsing, by the computing device, a query by a computer user into at least one token;generating, by the computing device, an ordered query from the parsed query comprising tokens ordered by increasing frequency within the set of electronic documents; andproviding, by the computing device, document references responsive to the query by the computer user based on the ordered query and the query index.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein providing document references responsive to the query by the computer user further comprises identifying a first key in the query index that matches the ordered query.3. The ...

Computing Device with Visual Image Browser

A computing device with a visual image searching browser includes a control unit. A visual image searching browser is coupled to the control unit for connecting a server. A display is coupled to the control unit, wherein a searching character string is transmitted to the server by the computing device via a network. The searching results are displayed by visual image base and the searching results include a visual image and website linking corresponding to the searching character string, and displayed by the display to allow a user may browse the searching results by visual image base. A dynamic ranking module in the computing device and being responsive to a frequency of website linking to re-arrange a list of the website information in the interface to allow high ranking linking website be listed on a top or a first page of the interface displayed on the display. 1. A computing device with a browser , comprising:a control unit;a browser coupled to said control unit for connecting a server;a display coupled to said control unit, wherein a searching character string is transmitted to said server by said computing device via a network, said server transmitting searching results to said computing device through said network based on said searching character string, and wherein said searching results are displayed by visual image base and said searching results include a visual image and website linking corresponding to said searching character string, and displayed by said display to allow a user may browse said searching results by visual image base, wherein said browser includes an interface to display website information; anda dynamic ranking module in said computing device and being responsive to a frequency of website linking to re-arrange a list of said website information in said interface to allow high ranking linking website be listed on a top or a first page of said interface displayed on said display.2. The computing device as set forth in claim 1 , wherein ...

Metasearch Engine for Ordering At Least One Stock Returned In Search Results Using At Least One Query on Multiple Unique Hosts

Process for metasearching on the Internet performed by a metasearch engine, comprising: receiving an HTTP request from a client device for the metasearch engine to send at least one stock related search query to a plurality of unique hosts that provide access to stock related information; sending the at least one stock related search query to the plurality of unique hosts in response to the HTTP request; receiving search results from the plurality of unique hosts in response to the at least one stock related search query, the search results comprising data about at least one stock that may be ordered; incorporating the received search results into a response; communicating the response from the metasearch engine to the client device; receiving another HTTP request from the client device for placing an order for the at least one stock; processing the order. At least one updated response may also be included. 1. A process for metasearching on the Internet , wherein the steps of the process are performed by a metasearch engine executing on a hardware device , the process comprising the steps of:(a) receiving a Hypertext Transfer Protocol request from a client device for the metasearch engine to send at least one stock related search query to a plurality of unique hosts that provide access to stock related information to be searched;(b) sending the at least one stock related search query to the plurality of unique hosts in response to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol request received from the client device;(c) receiving search results from the plurality of unique hosts in response to the at least one stock related search query sent to the plurality of unique hosts, wherein the search results comprise data about at least one stock that may be ordered;(d) incorporating the received search results into a response;(e) communicating the response from the metasearch engine to the client device;(f) receiving another Hypertext Transfer Protocol request from the client device for ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING HETEROGENEOUS SOLUTIONS AND MANAGEMENT WITH AN ENTERPRISE CRAWL AND SEARCH FRAMEWORK

Systems and methods for providing an enterprise crawl and search framework, including features such as use with middleware and enterprise application environments, pluggable security, search development tools, user interfaces, and governance. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes an enterprise crawl and search framework which abstracts an underlying search engine, provides a common set of application programming interfaces for developing search functionalities, and allows the framework to serve as an integration layer between one or more enterprise search engine and one or more enterprise application. A computing environment can be used to display an administration interface for use in administering the framework. 1. A system including an enterprise crawl and search framework (ECSF) which includes support for heterogeneous solutions and management , comprising:an ECSF framework which abstracts an underlying search engine, provides a common set of application programming interfaces (APIs) for developing search functionalities, and allows the framework to serve as an integration layer between one or more enterprise search engine and one or more enterprise application; anda computing environment which can be used to display an administration interface for use in administering the ECSF framework.2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the administration interface can be used to configure that searchable objects be bound to search categories.3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the administration interface can be used to manage searchable object lifecycles.4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the administration interface can be used to configure other parameters associated with the ECSF framework and search engine instances claim 1 , such as external search categories claim 1 , index schedules claim 1 , and other parameters.5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the enterprise search engine is an Oracle Secure Enterprise Search engine claim 1 , and wherein the ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A GOVERNANCE MODEL FOR USE WITH AN ENTERPRISE CRAWL AND SEARCH FRAMEWORK ENVIRONMENT

Systems and methods for providing an enterprise crawl and search framework, including features such as use with middleware and enterprise application environments, pluggable security, search development tools, user interfaces, and governance. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes an enterprise crawl and search framework which abstracts an underlying search engine, provides a common set of application programming interfaces for developing search functionalities, and allows the framework to serve as an integration layer between one or more enterprise search engine and one or more enterprise application. A user interface is provided for use in validating a search box against at target environment as part of implementing search within that environment. 1. A system including an enterprise crawl and search framework (ECSF) which includes support for enforcing governance within an ECSF environment , comprising:an ECSF framework which abstracts an underlying search engine, provides a common set of application programming interfaces (APIs) for developing search functionalities, and allows the framework to serve as an integration layer between one or more enterprise search engine and one or more enterprise application; anda user interface for use in validating a search box against at target environment as part of implementing ECSF search within that environment.2. The system of claim 1 , wherein an ECSF governance environment includes one or more customer advisory board claim 1 , search business working group claim 1 , search UX Working group claim 1 , and search technical working group.3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the user interface is used to confirm that enterprise application identities and search engine identities for the target environment are properly configured.4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the user interface is used to confirm that crawl application identities are used by the search engine to interact with the ECSF framework for crawling ...

Application store tastemaker recommendations

An application store tastemaker recommendation service determines experts within a user's social network(s), receives recommendations from the experts, filters and/or ranks mobile application query results based at least in part on the recommendations. Additionally, the service may further determine the experts based on data compiled about previous actions, reviews, comments, etc., of the experts. Further, the service may provide recommendations to the user to aid in selecting mobile applications for purchase, and may provide an avenue for completing such purchases.

AGGREGATOR, FILTER AND DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR ONLINE CONTEXT DEPENDENT INTERACTION, SYSTEMS AND METHODS

A method of providing information to a user is provided. The method includes; establishing an user system interface between a client device and an information system; processing informal queries input from the client device with at least one neural network that converts the informal queries from the client device into formal queries; storing interface context in a browser of the client device, the interface context created in forming formal queries from informal queries, wherein the client device contains unique interface context in the client device's browser that is secure to the client device, the interface context aiding in the determination of future formal queries from future informal queries; searching at least one database in response to the formal queries; and providing responses to the informal queries processed by the neural network to a user through the client device. 1. A method of providing information to a user , the method comprising:establishing an user system interface between a client device and an information system;processing informal queries input from the client device with at least one neural network that converts the informal queries from the client device into formal queries;storing interface context in a browser of the client device, the interface context created in forming formal queries from informal queries, wherein the client device contains unique interface context in the client device's browser that is secure to the client device, the interface context aiding in the determination of future formal queries from future informal queries;searching at least one database in response to the formal queries; andproviding responses to the informal queries processed by the neural network to a user through the client device.2. The method of claim 1 , wherein establishing an user system interface between a client device and an information system claim 1 , further comprises:providing a unique identifier with a presentation component to be displayed ...

IDENTIFYING KEY PHRASES WITHIN DOCUMENTS

Systems are used for identifying key phrases within documents. These systems utilize a tags and a tag index to determine what a document primarily relates to. For example, an integrated data flow and extract-transform-load pipeline, crawls, parses and word breaks large corpuses of documents in database tables. Documents can be broken into tuples. The tuples can be sent to a heuristically based algorithm that uses statistical language models and weight plus cross-entropy threshold functions to summarize the document into its “top N” most statistically significant phrases. These systems can scale efficiently (e.g., linearly) and (potentially large numbers of) documents can be characterized by salient and relevant key phrases (tags). 1. At a computing system including one or more processors and system memory , a method implemented by the computing system for identifying key phrases within a document , the method comprising:an act of accessing a document containing a plurality of textual phrases; an act of generating a location list for the textual phrase, the location list indicating one or more locations of the textual phrase within the document;', 'an act of assigning a score to the textual phrase based on the contents of the location list for the textual phrase relative to the occurrence of the textural phrase in a training set of data;, 'for each textual phrase in the plurality of textual phrases contained the documentan act of ranking the plurality of textual phrases according to the assigned scores;an act of selecting a subset of the plurality of textual phrases from within the document based on rankings; andan act of populating a key phrase data structure the selected subset of the plurality of textual phrases.2. The method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising an act of generating the training set of data through a plurality of queries to a search engine.3. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the training set of data is a language model.4. The ...

MULTI-USER INTERACTIVE WEB-BASED SEARCHES

A method for multiple users to jointly interact with web-based search results is provided. Selections of the search results by a user are immediately communicated to other users. Viewing options may be customized on a per-user basis for greater individual control over viewing the results. Results may be further acted upon to complete transactions. Individual results are easily referenced in chat windows. Status of query and transactions are communicated to all users. 1. A method for joint interaction with web-based search results , comprising:sending data to display, on a first display viewable by a first user, a set of results based on a query;sending data to display, on a second display viewable by a second user, the set of results;receiving, from the first user, a first input based on the set of results, the first input selecting a particular result from the set of results;receiving, from the second user, a second input based on the set of results, the second input selecting the particular result from the set of results;receiving, from the first user, a filter input indicating criteria for filtering the set of results; filtering the set of results based on the filter input to obtain a filtered set of results;', 'wherein the filtered set of results contains all results, from the set of results, that have been selected by both the first user and the second user;', 'automatically sending data to update at least the first display to display the filtered set of results, without displaying results, from the set of results, that have not been selected by both the first user and the second user., 'in response to receiving the filter input, performing the steps of'}2. The method of wherein the first display visually indicates that the filtered set of results were selected by both the first user and the second user.3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising sending data to update the second display to display the filtered set of results displayed to the first user.4. ...