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20100076955 | DATA NETWORK SERVICE BASED ON PROFILING CLIENT-ADDRESSES - A service is provided on a data network. The data network comprises a plurality of clients and one or more servers. Each specific client has a specific network address. In a database, respective groups are formed of the network addresses. Each respective group has a respective profile. Each respective profile is determined by one or more respective commonalities in requests sent by the clients to the one or more servers over a period of time. Each specific network address is grouped in at least one specific group based on the requests sent by the specific client and matching a specific profile. | 03-25-2010 |
20100106707 | INDEXING AND SEARCHING ACCORDING TO ATTRIBUTES OF A PERSON - An approach that indexes and searches according to a set of attributes of a person is provided. In one embodiment, there is an extensible indexing and search tool, including an extraction component configured to extract a set of attributes of a person monitored by a set of sensors in a zone of interest. An index component is configured to index each of the set of attributes of the person within an index of an extensible indexing and search tool. A search component is configured to enable a search of the index of the extensible indexing and search tool according to at least one of the set of attributes of the person. | 04-29-2010 |
20100145928 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO COMMUNICATE INFORMATION - There is provided a method and system to communicate information. The system receives a first query that contains at least one constraint and retrieves a first plurality of data items from a database based on the first query. Next the system generating a first distribution based on the first plurality of data items, the first distribution utilizing a first plurality of domains used to identify data items. Next the system generates a second distribution based on a plurality of requests to view a second plurality of data items. Next the system generates a third distribution based on the first distribution and the second distribution. Finally the system generates interface information, to be communicated to a user, based on the third distribution. | 06-10-2010 |
20100198805 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND DISPLAYING IMAGE - Provided is a method of generating image files, the method including: obtaining a first web page; extracting, from the first web page, link information, through which moving a second web page from the first web page is performed; downloading the second web page according to the extracted link information; and converting the first and second web pages into respective image files. | 08-05-2010 |
20100205169 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CONTENT USING CUSTOMIZED RSS AGGREGATION FEEDS - A system and methods are provided for aggregating content and sending the same using customized RSS aggregation feeds. The method is implemented on a computing infrastructure. The method includes indexing items from at least one of multiple RSS sources and non-RSS sources and aggregating two or more of the items from the indexed items associated with one or more user preferences. The method further includes sending an aggregated RSS feed to a user which includes the aggregated two or more of the items associated with the one or more user preferences. | 08-12-2010 |
20100228721 | CLASSIFYING MEDICAL INFORMATION IN DIFFERENT FORMATS FOR SEARCH AND DISPLAY IN SINGLE INTERFACE AND VIEW - In one embodiment, a method receives a plurality of documents. The documents may be received from different medical providers. Also, the documents may be medical record documents generated or captured in a first format and a second format. The first format may be an unstructured data format and the second format may be a structured data format. The first and second documents are then converted to a common format. For example, a common format may emerge as the most restrictive or constrained denominator of the first format and the second format. A schema is determined that provides an organizational structure with categories that can be used to index the content of the first and second documents while they are being converted to the common format. The schema and indexing enable the different formats of documents to be combined and organized simultaneously into a single view for a comprehensive review. | 09-09-2010 |
20100228722 | Method and system for updating images in an image database - Updating images in an image database includes determining an updated image that is among a plurality of images in the image database, extracting a plurality of image features of the updated image and storing a plurality of image feature values that correspond to the plurality of image features, and associating the plurality of image features of the updated image with a search engine, including adding an array comprising the plurality of image feature values to an index of the search engine. | 09-09-2010 |
20100268702 | GENERATING USER-CUSTOMIZED SEARCH RESULTS AND BUILDING A SEMANTICS-ENHANCED SEARCH ENGINE - Systems and methods for generating user-customized search results and building a semantics-enhanced search engine are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of generating user-customized search results using user-defined semantic types. The method includes, identifying a first set of URI patterns that are associated with a first set of semantic types defined by a first user, storing the first set of URI patterns in a database embodied in a computer-readable storage medium, and/or semantically categorizing a first set of search results for the first user, as having content related to one or more of the first set of semantic types defined by the first user. The first set of search results can be categorized using the first set of URI patterns. | 10-21-2010 |
20100287156 | ON-SITE SEARCH ENGINE FOR THE WORLD WIDE WEB - Providing updates to a computing device having a search engine capable of searching a local data store having an index with data related to a plurality of sites located on a wide area network. A first index builder capable of accessing sites on a wide area network is provided. The first index builder retrieves and analyzes data from the sites to create index data related to the sites. The method further includes communicating index data to the locally stored database for incrementally updating the index. A computing device capable of accessing a local data storage device is also provided. The device includes an index stored on the storage device including information related to data stored on the wide area network, a search engine capable of searching the index to retrieve information in response to a query, and a display. | 11-11-2010 |
20100293155 | METHOD FOR FILTERING FILE CLUSTERS - A method for filtering file clusters is presented. In the method, a plurality of advanced filter actions with different filter conditions and independent from each other is performed on an obtained main result file. Thereby, a history record of each advanced filter is kept, and the history record of each advanced filter and respective search results are presented on a target interface in a presentation mode of opening a new page or updating an index list. | 11-18-2010 |
20100306186 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING THE INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A problem to be solved is to enable the user to read out data stored in a logical unit in a power saving state in a short time in a storage system having a power saving function such as stopping the spindle of the HDD. To solve the problem, candidate document file information is read out according to the keywords inputted by the user from a search system, a predetermined number of document file names are extracted from the highest candidates in the candidate document file information, and the power saving function of the logical units actually storing the extracted document files is controlled (switch the state from the power saving state to the normal operation state). | 12-02-2010 |
20100306187 | Methods And Systems For Managing Data - Methods and systems for processing data, including metadata and an index database. In one exemplary method, a first folder, representing a first search query, is stored, and a second folder, representing a second search query wherein the second folder has a predetermined hierarchical relationship to the first folder, is stored, and the search queries are used to search one or both of an index database and a metadata database. In the metadata database, the type of metadata for one file type differs from the type of metadata for another file type. | 12-02-2010 |
20110004588 | METHOD FOR ENHANCING THE PERFORMANCE OF A MEDICAL SEARCH ENGINE BASED ON SEMANTIC ANALYSIS AND USER FEEDBACK - Method for enhancing the performance of a medical search engine, including the procedures of generating an inverted index of medical related documents, receiving a medical search query from a user, expanding and augmenting the received medical search query thereby generating an enhanced medical search query, retrieving all the medical related documents in the inverted index which are relevant to the enhanced medical search query, ranking the retrieved medical related documents according to a master expression, presenting the ranked retrieved medical related documents to the user, receiving at least one user feedback response from the user to a respective one of the ranked retrieved medical related documents, for each received user feedback response evaluating and storing at least one feature of the respective one of the ranked retrieved medical related documents and modifying the master expression based on the received user feedback response using at least one machine learning algorithm. | 01-06-2011 |
20110022579 | INTERNET SYSTEM FOR CONNECTING HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS AND PATIENTS - An Internet-based system involves a database and search capabilities for connecting patients with healthcare providers, e.g., physicians, hospitals, nursing homes, treatment facilities, etc., and further enables such providers to reach patients with whom they may not otherwise come into contact. A patient may access the healthcare provider information through a search conducted using a search engine, such as Google, Yahoo, etc. Alternatively, a patient may access the company Web site's predetermined Web page that provides search capabilities on its database. A patient may research a healthcare provider based on criteria specified by the patient. Information provided to the patient may be in the form of a report, profile, ratings, etc., including patient-provided information, physician-verified information, and information verified by an independent third party. The verified information and ratings provided by the Web site enable patients to differentiate among healthcare providers and thereby select the provider that best meets their individual needs. | 01-27-2011 |
20110029505 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CHARACTERIZING WEB CONTENT - An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a method of processing Web activity data. The method includes obtaining a database of clickstream data comprising a user identifier corresponding with a user ID and a uniform resource locator (URL) corresponding with a Web page visited from the user ID. The method also includes generating a plurality of features based on the URL. Further, the method includes generating a data structure comprising the user ID and the feature. The method also includes generating segment information from the data structure based on the similarity of a URL visitation pattern across different user IDs, wherein each segment in the segment information comprises one or more user IDs and one or more features. | 02-03-2011 |
20110047142 | Dynamic Index and Search Engine Server - The present invention comprises an apparatus for, computers software for, and method of providing personalized search capabilities of hypertext transmission protocol pages comprising: providing an index server maintaining an index to hypertext transmission protocol pages and employing a hierarchical plurality of topic categories; permitting a user to specify any subset of the plurality of topic categories; and adding to a hypertext transmission protocol page controlled by the user link information permitting execution of searches of the index server in any category of the subset but only of categories in the subset. | 02-24-2011 |
20110055196 | DATA MINING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - User insights derived from communication data may be provided. Communications associated with a user may be collected and analyzed to derive insights about the user. The insight may then be provided to the user, such as for modifying an application functionality, creating a message processing rule, providing new information to the user, and updating an application display or user interface. | 03-03-2011 |
20110072002 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SEARCH VALIDATION - A method of validating results of a host search engine ( | 03-24-2011 |
20110078131 | EXPERIMENTAL WEB SEARCH SYSTEM - Described is the running of search-related experiments on a full (or partial) offline snapshot copy of the search engine documents of an actual production system. A snapshot experimentation subsystem runs experimental code related to web searches on the offline data, including to run experimental index building code to build an experimental index (e.g., to test a new document feature), and/or to run experimental search-related code, such as to rank search results according to experimental ranking code, to implement an experimental search strategy, and/or to generate experimental captions. | 03-31-2011 |
20110078132 | FLEXIBLE INDEXING AND RANKING FOR SEARCH - Described is a flexible framework for index building and document retrieval in a search environment that allows different search scenario applications to reuse index building and document retrieval code for non-scenario-specific functionality. Interfaces to various functionality of an index builder and retrieval engine are defined. An application calls the interfaces to specify custom code to perform a search scenario when needed, or use default code when non-scenario-specific functionality may be used. | 03-31-2011 |
20110125727 | CONTENT ORIENTED INDEX AND SEARCH METHOD AND SYSTEM - This present invention describes an innovative solution in the area of indexing and searching binary files including various binary files such as multimedia files, including image files, mp3 files and other audio/video files from the public Internet. The invention introduces a way to index binary files such as multimedia files according to their content signatures, which uniquely identify themselves, and search for related files by walking through a graph database constructed during the index phase. The present invention can be used in a search engine and a download engine, as well as with text based index and search technologies. As a result, such extended usage will broaden a multimedia file's context and increase relevant accuracy of the keywords describing the context. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125728 | Systems and Methods for Indexing Information for a Search Engine - Embodiments of the invention form an information set from the current set of index information available by the operations of the pre-search and runtime Search components of the search engine. A search request that contains search terms and/or other search criteria (e.g. date or file type) is entered by a user through an input interface. The search terms and the information set are worked through the search engine modules to provide the actual results sought by the user. These results are provided to the user via an output interface. Embodiments involve scanning the repository for documents that comprise at least one information type, and forming a numerical matrix from the scanned documents. | 05-26-2011 |
20110137887 | Constraint Processing - Constraint processing for a relational database generates primary (e.g., based on primary key values) and constraint index records (e.g., based on foreign key values) during table load operations that are then sorted in a manner that rapidly and unambiguously identifies rows that fail the specified constraint test. Rows so identified may be deleted to maintain the constraint (e.g., referential) integrity of a child table. In one case, child table row data may be processed in constraint key order, eliminating the need first load the child table with row data and then delete those rows that subsequently fail the integrity test. | 06-09-2011 |
20110153590 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR OPEN API AND GENERATING MASHUP BLOCK SKELETON CODE - The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for searching for an open API and generating a mashup block skeleton code. A method for searching for an open API and generating a mashup block skeleton code includes: storing metadata of web services and open APIs according to an integrated schema; searching for a web service or an open API corresponding to search query input from a user; extracting the metadata necessary to generate the skeleton code of the metadata of the mashup block by using the mapping relationship between the meta data of the searched web service or the searched open API and the metadata of the mashup block; and generating the skeleton code of the metadata of the mashup block by using the extracted metadata. | 06-23-2011 |
20110173180 | SEARCH ENGINE RECENCY USING CONTENT PREVIEW - Disclosed herein is use of a preview of content from a target document, as provided by a content preview source such as a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed, by a search engine. The content preview source includes the preview of the target document's content and a reference, e.g., a Universal Resource Locator (URL) or other link. A content preview document is generated using data extracted from the content preview source. The content preview document is made available in a searchable index used by a search engine to respond to a search query. A fetch operation is scheduled to fetch the target document using the reference provided in the content preview source. Once fetched, the data extracted from the content preview source can be associated with the target document, and can be used in presenting the target document in search results. | 07-14-2011 |
20110173181 | SEARCH ENGINE AND METHOD WITH IMPROVED RELEVANCY, SCOPE, AND TIMELINESS - A search engine and a method achieve timeliness of documents returned in a search result by a relevancy feedback mechanism driven by the frequency in which a URL is returned in recent searches. The relevancy feedback mechanism includes one or more random processes which determine whether or not a cached or indexed web page associated with a URL in the search result should be refreshed. In addition, the random processes also determine whether or not hyperlinks in the cached or indexed web page should be followed to access related web pages. Accesses of web pages resulting from the operations of the random processes are used to update any document index maintained by the search engine. Relevancy scoring functions implemented in look-up tables are also disclosed. A more accurate relevancy scoring function is achieved using a lexicon based on anchortexts of extracted hyperlinks of web documents. | 07-14-2011 |
20110179013 | Search Log Online Analytic Processing - A suffix-tree index may be constructed from search engine search logs. This suffix-tree is scalable and suitable for use in a distributed computing environment. Data mining against the data may proceed with functions including a forward search, backward search, and/or query session retrieval. | 07-21-2011 |
20110184932 | SEARCH USING PROXIMITY FOR CLUSTERING INFORMATION - The invention provides a method and system for hierarchical search retrieval. The method includes performing a text search on a hierarchy data structure of information. Forming a limited size hierarchy data structure using the search results. Assigning a location number for each search result in the hierarchy data structure. Sorting the hierarchy data structure. Clustering the sorted hierarchy data structure by categorizing the search results in the hierarchy data structure into groups that are related based on proximity. Limiting a hierarchical depth for each group in the clustered hierarchy data structure based on a configurable depth value to reduce hierarchical results for presentation. Providing the clustered hierarchical data structure as a list of search results as output. | 07-28-2011 |
20110196855 | REAL TIME CONTENT SEARCHING IN SOCIAL NETWORK - Indexing and retrieving real time content in a social networking system is disclosed. A user-term index includes user-term partitions, each user-term partition comprising temporal databases. As a post is received from a user, a user identifier, a post identifier, and a post is extracted. An object store communicatively coupled to a temporal database for recently received content is queried to determine whether terms in the post has already been stored. A term identifier is stored in the user-term index with the user and post identifiers. A forward index stores the post by post identifier. Responsive to a search query, the user-term index is searched by the user's connections and the terms. A real time search engine compiles the results of the user-term index query and retrieves the stored posts from the forward index. The search results may then be ranked and cached before presentation to the searching user. | 08-11-2011 |
20110202522 | AUTOMATED USER BEHAVIOR FEEDBACK SYSTEM FOR WHOLE PAGE SEARCH SUCCESS OPTIMIZATION - Various users' navigational behaviors relative to search results presented by a search engine are monitored. URLs that are visited and revised queries that are submitted after the submission of an original query are placed within a trail that begins with the original query. These trails are grouped based on the original queries with which they begin. For each trail group, a set of URLs that frequently occur in that group's trails, and a set of revised queries that frequently occur in that group's trails, are determined. These frequently occurring elements are mapped to the original queries with which all the trails in the corresponding trail group begin. In response to subsequent submissions of the same original query, the search engine ensures that URLs and revised queries that are mapped to the original query are prominently displayed on the search results pages that are initially returned in response to those submissions. | 08-18-2011 |
20110208718 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADDING ANCHOR IDENTIFIERS TO SEARCH RESULTS - Methods and systems are provided that may be utilized to determine one or more selectable anchor identifiers for one or more search results. | 08-25-2011 |
20110213765 | Comprehensive, Relevant, and Dynamic Data Searching in a Virtualization Environment - A method includes indexing data and/or metadata in online virtual machines (VMs), offline VMs, virtual applications, and/or snapshots thereof on one or more host server(s) in a virtualization environment through a search architecture in the virtualization environment. The online VMs are VMs that are powered on, and the offline VMs are VMs that are powered off. The method also includes maintaining a database of the indexed data and/or metadata in the online VMs, the offline VMs, the virtual applications, and/or the snapshots thereof to enable a comprehensive search result to a search query through the search architecture. The database is associated with the search architecture. | 09-01-2011 |
20110231388 | E-BOOK READ APPARATUS AND OPERATION THEREOF - An operation method for an e-book is provided that links to an index database of the e-book, wherein the index database has a plurality of index objects and a plurality of index information corresponding to each of index objects. In addition, the index formation shows page numbers of a plurality of pages having the index objects in the e-book. Then, a plurality of briefs of the pages recorded in each of index information are obtained, and added in to corresponding index information for rebuilding index database. When one of index objects is selected on an index screen, the updated index information of the selected index object is showed on the index screen by the present invention. | 09-22-2011 |
20110246444 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING ENTERPRISE CONTENT - A method and system for providing a consistent flow documents and data content across different organizational units of a company or agency where the documents and data come from different enterprise systems and data stores but are related to linked processes that share models for organizing the content in the business context and in a format that enables a user to relate the content to the process step or steps they are performing. The system includes a network service that enables a configuration utility to automatically discover the objects and metadata and provides for a mapping of selected fields of the metadata to regions displayed in the user interface view with provision for filtering the data by mapping selected fields to a user input form. Thereby, a business analyst can create solutions without writing and maintaining complex program logic for each combination of presentation environment, enterprise system and data store. | 10-06-2011 |
20110252018 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING SEARCH INDEX ON CLOUD DATABASE - A method for creating a search index on cloud database is provided. The method enables providing inputs for creating multiple indexes on documents stored in the cloud database. One of the inputs may include a first value representing number of documents to be assigned a single index. The method further enables determining total number of documents stored in the cloud database which is represented by a second value. Further, the method enables estimating total number of indexes to be created based on first value and second value. The method further comprises executing a loop to create multiple indexes for a predetermined number of iterations which corresponds to the estimated value. Furthermore, the method comprises indexing documents for creating the multiple indexes. Finally, the method comprises merging the multiple indexes to create a single index which facilitates a user to search documents stored in the cloud database. | 10-13-2011 |
20110258177 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A MICRODOCUMENT FRAMEWORK FOR STORAGE, RETRIEVAL, AND AGGREGATION - The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for providing a microdocument framework. The method and system includes receiving a plurality microdocuments and detecting content data for each of the plurality of microdocuments. The method and system further includes indexing at least a portion of the plurality of microdocuments based on the detected content and performing a searching operation using the content data associated with the microdocument data to determine a microdocument set. Thereupon, the method and system performs at least processing one operation on the microdocument set. | 10-20-2011 |
20110264646 | 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. | 10-27-2011 |
20110282863 | USE OF VIRTUAL DATABASE TECHNOLOGY FOR INTERNET SEARCH AND DATA INTEGRATION - This invention discloses how Virtual Database Technology can be used to make disparate data appear to be (or act as) the sort of uniform data one expects to find within a single relational database. In particular, we show how to process queries similar to those one might use in a database, even though the underlying data may be missing some of the capabilities that are required by normal databases. Whereas traditional databases require that all the tuples in a table be stored, our approach allows queries over tables where the tuples are generated as required from the data sources, and may not be stored anywhere. We show how such facilities can be used as a new foundation for Internet search. | 11-17-2011 |
20110302149 | IDENTIFYING DOMINANT CONCEPTS ACROSS MULTIPLE SOURCES - Systems, methods, and computer-storage media for identifying dominant concepts are provided. The system includes a search engine connected to various sources, an entity extraction component, a metabase, and a ranking component. The search engine receives a contextual query and provides results in response to the contextual query. The entity extraction component parses the results and identifies entities included in the results. The metabase provides a distance between the entities included in the results and the query terms included in the contextual query. The ranking component ranks the entities based on the provided distance and selects dominant concepts within the results based on the ranks assigned to entities. | 12-08-2011 |
20110302150 | Data Storage Method for an Electronic Device - To prevent memory cells from being damaged, the present invention provides a data storage method for an electronic device, which comprises dividing a first section of a memory of the electronic device into N blocks, wherein each of the N blocks is corresponding to a sequence number and assigned an index value; rewriting an assigned index value corresponding to an nth block of the N blocks according to index values corresponding to the N blocks; storing an input data in the nth block; and rewriting the nth block by stored data in the (n−1)th block before storing the input data in the nth block when the index values corresponding to the N blocks are not identical such that a number of times of accessing sections of the memory is averaged, to prevent the memory from being damaged; wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and 1≦n≦N. | 12-08-2011 |
20110307469 | System and method for query suggestion based on real-time content stream - A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to provide query suggestions including real-time suggestion of complete query terms, which can be phrases, to a user by analyzing and indexing the real-time history/stream of content or documents in addition to the stream of queries entered. Since the real-time indexing generates a count of potential results for each term found and/or indexed in the stream, the terms found in that stream can then be used as potential query suggestions, knowing that it will be possible to provide results for those queries. | 12-15-2011 |
20110320428 | DATA-DISCRIMINATE SEARCH ENGINE UPDATES - Techniques are provided for data-discriminate search engine updates, where, in accordance with a first crawling session frequency associated with a first update type, a search engine index is updated by recording an update to a first set of data, where the update to the first set of data is of the first update type, and, in accordance with a second crawling session frequency associated with a second update type, the search engine index is updated by recording an update to a second set of data, where the update to the second set of data is of the second update type, where the first crawling session frequency is of a different frequency than the second crawling session frequency. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320429 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUGMENTING A KEYWORD OF A WEB PAGE WITH VIDEO CONTENT - The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for delivering related video content to a user in response to user actions on augmented keywords on a web page. A server may receive from a browser, in response to an indication of a mouse over a keyword currently displayed on a web page of a client, a keyword identified for augmentation via a user interface overlay. The server may identify, responsive to receiving the keyword, a plurality of videos related to the keyword. A content relevancy engine may determine an order of relevance of the plurality of videos to the keyword. The server may transmit to the client, within a predetermined time period from the indication, the user interface overlay to include a selected one or more videos of the plurality of videos with a higher order of relevance. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320430 | OBJECT RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method for recommending an object in a communication network using a bookmark, said method comprising, for an object search engine in the communication network, the acts of indexing a bookmark created by a first user in association with search keywords comprising an identifier of the first user and an identifier of at least one second user with whom the first user wants to share the bookmark; providing to a second user, in response to a search request from said second user, a search result comprising a link usable for accessing an object linked with the bookmark. | 12-29-2011 |
20120005187 | Web Site Content Management Techniques - Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for creating and managing web site content. A content management system includes an administration module and a page generator module. The administration module is accessible by users through a web browser to specify web site content and settings. The web site content and settings are stored in a data store separately from a published version of the web site so the web site can be regenerated and republished with additional changes at a later time. The administration module includes a skins module, a languages module, a contents module, a business pages module, and a newsletter module. A page generator module generates web pages for the web site. The web pages are generated and published to the web site whenever changes that impact the web site are made to the web site content and settings through the administration module. | 01-05-2012 |
20120016864 | HIERARCHICAL MERGING FOR OPTIMIZED INDEX - Methods, systems, and media are provided for an optimized search engine index. The optimized index is formed by merging small lower level indexes of fresh documents together into a hierarchical cluster of multiple higher level indexes. The optimized index of fresh documents is formed via a single threaded process, while a fresh index serving platform concurrently serves fresh queries. The hierarchy of higher level indexes is formed by merging lower and/or higher level indexes with similar expiration times together. Therefore, as some indexes expire, the remaining un-expired indexes can be re-used and merged with new incoming indexes. The single threaded process provides fast serving of fresh documents, while also providing time to integrate the fresh indexes into a long term primary search engine index, prior to expiring. | 01-19-2012 |
20120016865 | DYNAMIC LANGUAGE TRANSLATION OF WEB SITE CONTENT - Methods, systems, and computer readable medium for providing translated web content with translated URLs. A request is received content in a second language translated from content in a first language. The content in the first language is obtained from the first Internet source. One or more links are identified from the content in the first language. Each original URL is divided into one or more translatable URL components in the first language. Whether the one or more translatable URL components in each original URL have been previously translated into the second language and stored as translated URL components is determined. If there is at least one translatable URL component previously translated and stored as a corresponding translated URL component, a translated URL in the second language for each original URL is generated. The content in the second language with translated URLs is created. | 01-19-2012 |
20120030188 | ENTERPRISE-BASED SEARCHING OF NEW AND UPDATED DATA - A searchable staging data store is provided, which stores new and updated records during a period of entry of those records to an enterprise-accessible data store and update of a search index with information from those records. The searchable data store provides rapid access to the data during that period of entry. Embodiments provide for searching a search index for records responsive to a search query, searching the searchable staging data store for records responsive to the search query, receiving search results from both the search of the search index and the searchable staging data store, and displaying those results. | 02-02-2012 |
20120030189 | Dynamically Joined Fast Search Views for Business Objects - According to some embodiments, an anchor transactional view may be defined for at least one business object data structure. The anchor transactional may have a plurality of anchor fields, each anchor field representing a data source and being associated with a field of an anchor search view. An indication of at least one extension field to the anchor search view may be received. The anchor search view and at least one extension field may represent, for example, a virtual fast search infrastructure view. Responsive to the received indication of the at least one extension field, an additional view may be dynamically joined at runtime to the anchor transactional view. The additional view may have at least one additional field, and each additional field may be associated with one of the extension fields. | 02-02-2012 |
20120030190 | METHOD OF RECORDING AND SEARCHING FOR A WEB PAGE AND METHOD OF RECORDING A BROWSED WEB PAGE - A method of recording and searching for a Web Page allows a user to find Web Pages he or she has browsed. A plurality of users can input key words to find Web Pages they have browsed and recorded via the history of browsed Web Pages. What is different from a prior art search engine server is that the search engine server of the present invention only provides the Web Pages which the plurality of users have browsed and recorded. In addition, in order to reduce the burden of the search engine, it is recommended that the Web Page contents be uploaded from the user's browser to the search engine server. | 02-02-2012 |
20120030191 | ANALYSIS AND REPORTING OF COLLECTED SEARCH ACTIVITY DATA OVER MULTIPLE SEARCH ENGINES - A tracking system passively tracks and records searches conducted by actual search engine users. The recorded data for each search event preferably includes the search query submitted, the search engine used, the search result item (e.g., web page) selected, the position (e.g., page number) of this item, and the user's IP address. The collected data is aggregated and analyzed to generate data regarding the search queries used to locate and access particular destinations (e.g., web pages and sites). This data may be used for various purposes, such as (1) to generate reports showing, e.g., how users reach a particular destination from different search engines and geographic locations, (2) to select content to display on a destination page, such that the content is relevant to search queries commonly used to locate that page, and (3) to update the database of one search engine to reflect searches conducted on other search engines. | 02-02-2012 |
20120036119 | AUTO-REFINEMENT OF SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON MONITORED SEARCH ACTIVITIES OF USERS - A tracking system passively tracks and records searches conducted by actual search engine users. The recorded data for each search event preferably includes the search query submitted, the search engine used, the search result item (e.g., web page) selected, the position (e.g., page number) of this item, and the user's IP address. The collected data is aggregated and analyzed to generate data regarding the search queries used to locate and access particular destinations (e.g., web pages and sites). This data may be used for various purposes, such as (1) to generate reports showing, e.g., how users reach a particular destination from different search engines and geographic locations, (2) to select content to display on a destination page, such that the content is relevant to search queries commonly used to locate that page, and (3) to update the database of one search engine to reflect searches conducted on other search engines. | 02-09-2012 |
20120041941 | 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. | 02-16-2012 |
20120066203 | ONLINE CONTENT RANKING SYSTEM BASED ON AUTHENTICITY METRIC VALUES FOR WEB ELEMENTS - Methods and systems for identifying and ranking search results and online advertisements based on authenticity are described. A search server includes an authenticity index, which includes authenticity metric values associated with one or more web elements. The authenticity metric values may indicate the relative authority of the web element with respect to a specific category, keyword, search term, phrase, context, filter, etc. Search results may be generated and ranked based on the authenticity metric values. | 03-15-2012 |
20120072410 | Image Search by Interactive Sketching and Tagging - Sketch and tagging based image search may include receiving a sketch query input and identifying an object in a desired image. The object or objects of the sketch query may be tagged with a text, and searching performed based on the objects. Certain implementations include indexing patches of the images, where the patches represent the objects. Relevant images can be returned based on the index of the patches. | 03-22-2012 |
20120078877 | MULTI-SOURCE SEARCHING IN A DATA DRIVEN APPLICATION - Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for a multi-source search. In an embodiment, a method for multi-source searching for a data driven application includes defining a form for a data driven application that includes user interface controls each corresponding to respectively to different fields in different data sources. The method also includes generating a search index for the form incorporating the different fields, coupling the form with a search user interface that includes a search control configured to accept at least one query term and associating the search control with a selection of the different fields. Thereafter, during execution of the data driven application, a search engine query can be directed for the selection of the different fields in the search index and not the different data sources according to the at least one query term provided in the search user interface. | 03-29-2012 |
20120089592 | Automatic Text Skimming Using Lexical Chains - Automatic text skimming using lexical chains may be provided. First, at least one lexical chain may be created from an electronic document. Next, a list of positions within the electronic document may be created. The positions may include where at least one concept represented by one of the at least one lexical chain is mentioned. In addition, a list of the position where the at least one concept is mentioned may be assembled. A selection of at least one concept may be received from the list. | 04-12-2012 |
20120102021 | VISUAL MEME TRACKING FOR SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYSIS - A system and method for analyzing visual memes includes identifying visual memes associated with at least one topic in a data source. The visual memes propagated over time are tracked to extract information associated with identified visual memes. The information associated with the visual memes is analyzed to determine at least one of generation, propagation, and use of the identified memes. | 04-26-2012 |
20120109933 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FEDERATED SEARCH - A method and apparatus for searching data by a computing platform from two or more computerized data sources, comprising an indexing stage and a searching stage. The indexing stage comprising: retrieving data from at least an on-premise data source and an on-demand data source, identifying data related to an entity from the on-premise data source with data from the on-demand data source, merging the data from the on-premise data source with data from the on-demand data source, normalizing the data from the on-premise data source with data from the on-demand data source, and generating a first index comprising one or more mashed entities or one or more mashed relationships obtained from the on-premise data source and the on-demand data source. The searching stage comprising: receiving a query from a user, scanning the first index in accordance with the query, retrieving data from the first index, and outputting the data. | 05-03-2012 |
20120124028 | Unified Application Discovery across Application Stores - Techniques for discovery of applications across a plurality of application stores are described herein. The discovery may be in response to a query and intent process, which may be initiated by a search query. The search query may reveal user intent to discover an application by operation of a search engine. The user intent may be matched with indexed application content. The application content may be obtained by operation of a discovery and indexing process. A crawler may discover and crawl a plurality of application stores. Additionally or alternatively, a feed store may receive direct feeds of application information and links to download locations from a plurality of application stores. Both the discovered data and direct feeds may be sent to an indexer, to create and maintain an index. Search results pages may be returned to provide users with information, links to developer websites and links to download pages from a plurality of application stores. | 05-17-2012 |
20120130981 | SELECTION OF ATOMS FOR SEARCH ENGINE RETRIEVAL - Methods are provided for populating search indexes with atoms identified in documents. Documents that are to be indexed are identified, and for each document, atoms are identified and are categorized as unigrams, n-grams, and n-tuples. A list of atom/document pairs is generated such that an information metric can be computed for each pair. An information metric represents a ranking of the atom in relation to the particular document. Based on the information metric, some atom/document pairs are discarded and others are indexed. | 05-24-2012 |
20120150838 | AUTOMATED DATABASE GENERATION FOR ANSWERING FACT LOOKUP QUERIES - Technologies pertaining to fact lookup queries are described herein. A relational database is automatically built by extracting attribute identities and attribute values from a one dimensional table, wherein the one dimensional table does not include an entity identity that corresponds to the attribute identity and the attribute value. The entity identity is inferred, and the attribute value is indexed in a relational database by the entity identity and the attribute identity. When a query is issued by a user that includes the entity identity and the attribute identity, the corresponding attribute value in the relational database is returned to the user. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150839 | SEARCHING LINKED CONTENT USING AN EXTERNAL SEARCH SYSTEM - A message is delivered to an external indexing service when a link is located within a given communication. The message includes a request to index content contained within the link to ensure that the link is indexed. When a keyword search query is performed within the communication system, both a local index and an external index associated with the external indexing service are queried. Results from the query are merged and surfaced. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150840 | SEARCH SERVER INTERCONNECTION METHOD, SEARCH SERVER AND SYSTEM FOR MOBILE SEARCH - A search server interconnection method, a search server, and a system for mobile search are disclosed The method includes: sending an information list of a first group of member engines to a search server; receiving an information list of a second group of member engines, where the information list of the second group of member engines is returned by the search server; and sending meta-index information of member engines in the information list of the second group of member engines to the search server. In the present invention, an effective mobile search service across search servers is realized. | 06-14-2012 |
20120166415 | SUPPLEMENTING SEARCH RESULTS WITH KEYWORDS DERIVED THEREFROM - Embodiments are provided for creating a personalized search index and supplementing searches with an additional set of keywords. A first set of keywords is received from a user. A first index associated with the user is searched using the first set of keywords to generate a first set of search results. The first index includes content identified by the user. A second set of keywords is defined based on the first set of search results. A second index is searched using the second set of keywords to generate a second set of search results. At least a portion of the first and second sets of search results is provided to the user. Some embodiments are implemented as a cloud computing service. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166416 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO IDENTIFY GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH QUERIES RECEIVED AT A SEARCH ENGINE - Techniques are provided for prediction locations of users that submit search queries. A query is received at a search engine. An inverted index is searched to identify one or more geographical locations associated with one or more terms of the received query. The inverted index lists a plurality of query terms and one or more geographical locations associated with each query term. Each geographic location that is associated with a listed query term in the inverted index is a determined location for at least one user previously having submitted the listed term in a search query. A geographical location is predicted for a user that submitted the received query based on the identified one or more geographical locations. In this manner, a location is predicted for the user based on similar queries previously submitted by users. | 06-28-2012 |
20120173510 | PRIORITY HASH INDEX - A priority hash index provides efficient lookup of posting lists for search query terms. The priority hash index is a data structure in which hash values for terms are distributed across multiple storage devices based on importance of the terms and access speeds of the storage devices. Terms are grouped into search lists with each search list including a storage location on each storage device. When a search query is received, a term is identified and hashed to a location on the first storage device and to generate a unique hash value for the term. The locations on the storage device for the term's search list are sequentially read until the hash value for the term is located to access the posting list for the term. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173511 | FILE SEARCH SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - There are provided a file search system and program that perform efficient searches by creating, with respect to a file search environment where files for which a full-text search should be allowed and files for which a full-text search is unnecessary coexist, different index files. With respect to a file search system in which a file search server, a file server and a client are interconnected via a communications line | 07-05-2012 |
20120191695 | Search Engine and Indexing Technique - A local search engine geographically indexes information for searching by identifying a geocoded web page of a web site and identifying at least one geocodable web page of the web site. The system identifies a geocode contained within content of the geocoded web page of the web site. The geocode indicates a physical location of an entity associated with the web site. The system indexes content of the geocoded web page and content of the geocodable web page. The indexing including associating the geocode contained within content of the geocoded web page to the indexed content of the geocoded web page and the geocodable web page to allow geographical searching of the content of the web pages. | 07-26-2012 |
20120197864 | TRUSTED QUERY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method and system provides a search interface that permits a user to interrogate a structured database, and includes retrieving database entries from one or more databases, flattening a plurality of database entries, indexing the plurality of flattened database entries to form a search engine index, and prompting the user to enter an input. The system continuously monitors the user input and each time an input is entered by the user, the system computes a set of non-null partial queries in response to the input entered by the user, associates a structured item to each non-null partial query, and allows the user to select one of the structured items. If the user selects one of the structured items, the system replaces the user input by the non-null partial query associated to the selected structured item. When the user validates the input, the system executes the input as a query. Finally, the system provides documents to the user corresponding to the executed query. | 08-02-2012 |
20120239639 | Search Engine - A search engine to index web content with user content. A server computer receives, from a first client computer operated by a first user, an identification of first web content displayed by a web browser of the first client computer in a main browser window. The identification of the first web content is transmitted by the first user to the server computer via a user interface separate from the main browser window. The server computer then indexes the first web content. In response to receiving a search query from a web browser of a second client computer operated by a second user, the server computer transmits search results to the web browser of the second client computer. The search results include the first web content identified by the first user in a position relative to identifications of other web content received from other users. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239640 | METHOD AND MEANS FOR BROWSING BY WALKING - A mobile station is arranged to determine its location, which is searched against street addresses from a database, and at least one matching street address is retrieved. The street address is searched on the mobile station and/or over the network. The search engine conducts a search in the mobile station file system and/or the Internet and/or a file system over the network with the at least one query term, —at least one search result is arranged to be displayed to user on the screen of the mobile station. This facilitates on-demand effortless Mobile Internet Search that allows the users to access opportunities that they did not know about, or would not have had time to find out about with minimum effort as the software of the mobile phone is scanning the Internet and information pages for these opportunities and displaying the results dynamically on the mobile phone screen. | 09-20-2012 |
20120246143 | METHOD FOR REDIRECTING A WEB BROWSER BASED ON THE KEYWORDS USED IN A SEARCH ENGINE - A method of responding to a request for web page includes the steps of receiving a request, extracting search query parameters from a request and redirecting to a mapped web page or alternatively responding with the requested web page. The search query parameters and requested web page are associated with each and stored for later processing and assignment. | 09-27-2012 |
20120246144 | ACCESSING DEEP WEB INFORMATION USING A SEARCH ENGINE - Methods, apparatuses, and articles for receiving a search request associated with a transportation service from a client device, the search request including a plurality of search criteria, are described herein. Additionally, the methods, apparatuses, and articles further return to the client device an answer page having a plurality of answers potentially associated with the transportation service, the plurality of answers identifying a plurality of information locations having information potentially associated with at least a one of the plurality of search criteria, where at least one of the answers includes at least one input field of a query answer page for entry of at least one feature of the transportation service, the query answer page to be dynamically generated by one of the information locations in response to a query. | 09-27-2012 |
20120259834 | INDEXING AND SEARCHING OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGE TRANSMISSION THREAD SETS - A method is carried out by storing information describing configurations of discussion threads formed of respective series of EMTs that are exchanged among at least two individuals. The discussion threads have a root EMT, zero or more reply EMTs, and a last offspring EMT. The method is further carried out by compacting the EMT discussion threads, and indexing the compacted EMT discussion threads. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259835 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTATION - An embodiment of a method includes receiving a selection of an original content item, deriving a supplemental content item from the original content item, designating a unique identifier to the supplemental content item, and inserting a reference including the unique identifier into the primary document. A system includes a candidate content item repository having one or more content items that can be included in a structured electronic document, a copy module configured to derive a base supplemental content item from a selected one of the candidate content items and further configured to designate a unique identifier for the base supplemental content item, and a document editor configured to receive the unique identifier and insert the unique identifier into a reference to the base supplemental content in the primary document. | 10-11-2012 |
20120271813 | MULTI-LAYER SEARCH-ENGINE INDEX - Subject matter described herein includes a multi-layer search-engine index. Accordingly, the search-engine index is divided into multiple indexes, each of which includes a respective set of information used to serve (i.e., respond to) a query. One index includes a term index, which organizes a set of terms that are found among a collection of documents. Another index includes a document index, which organizes a set of documents that are searchable. A computing device is used to serve the search-engine index (i.e., to analyze the index when identifying documents relevant to a search query). For example, a solid-state device might be used to serve the multi-layer search-engine index. | 10-25-2012 |
20120278303 | PROPAGATING USER IDENTITIES IN A SECURE FEDERATED SEARCH SYSTEM - A flexible and extensible architecture allows for secure searching across an enterprise. Such an architecture can provide a simple Internet-like search experience to users searching secure content inside (and outside) the enterprise. The architecture allows for the crawling and searching of a variety or sources across an enterprise, regardless of whether any of these sources conform to a conventional user role model. The architecture further allows for security attributes to be submitted at query time, for example, in order to provide real-time secure access to enterprise resources. The user query also can be transformed to provide for dynamic querying that provides for a more current result list than can be obtained for static queries. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278304 | RELEVANT INDIVIDUAL SEARCHING USING MANAGED PROPERTY AND RANKING FEATURES - Embodiments are configured to provide information relevant to individuals of interest to a searching user. In an embodiment, a method includes identifying relevant individuals of a network using a relevance model that includes the use of a number of managed properties and ranking features to identify relevant individuals of a defined network. The relevance model of one embodiment is defined by a schema that includes a textual matching ranking feature, social distance ranking feature, a levels to top ranking feature, and a proximity ranking feature. | 11-01-2012 |
20120284253 | System and method for query suggestion based on real-time content stream - A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to provide query suggestions including real-time suggestion of complete query terms, which can be phrases, to a user by analyzing and indexing the real-time history/stream of content or documents in addition to the stream of queries entered. Since the real-time indexing generates a count of potential results for each term found and/or indexed in the stream, the terms found in that stream can then be used as potential query suggestions, knowing that it will be possible to provide results for those queries. | 11-08-2012 |
20120290556 | ANONYMOUS REFERENDUM SYSTEM AND METHOD - An anonymous referendum system provides a means for an end user to enter an answer to a referendum without being forced to navigate to a secondary interface. The anonymous referendum system has a server that includes a database for storing available referendums and their corresponding status, operating parameters and answers, an answer checker for tallying or discarding an answer and at least one client that includes an interface. In the case a cookie is stored at the interface, the message is transmitted back to the server with a hashed cookie as a field in the header portion of the message. In the case a cookie is not used, a hashed MAC address is inserted as a field in the header portion. A mechanism for causing sharing of information between referendum pools is further disclosed. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290557 | Adding Attributes and Labels to Structured Data - A method and system associating labels and attribute values with items in a collection of data. Providers can associate attributes and labels with their data or attributes and labels can be added to existing data. A preferred embodiment allows a content provider to upload data and to attach their own custom labels and attributes to items or to use predefined labels and attributes. Providers can upload data using a user interface or a bulk upload mechanism. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290558 | System and Method to Search and Generate Reports from Semi-Structured Data Including Dynamic Metadata - Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for searching and reporting on semistructured data that can include dynamic metadata. One embodiment can comprise providing a user interface to a user based on an object type definition for an object type that allows the user to specify search criteria associated with a set of metadata, mapping the user search criteria to a query that comprises at least one structured query constraint and at least one unstructured query constraint, processing the query to search a set of data objects containing semistructured data associated with the object type according to the query and returning a set of results to the user. The search results can be returned to a user based on user-specified reporting parameters. Additionally, the reporting definition can be saved as an object for future execution. | 11-15-2012 |
20120303607 | ACCESSING DEEP WEB INFORMATION USING A SEARCH ENGINE - Methods, apparatuses, and articles for receiving a search request associated with a transportation service from a client device, the search request including a plurality of search criteria, are described herein. Additionally, the methods, apparatuses, and articles further return to the client device an answer page having a plurality of answers potentially associated with the transportation service, the plurality of answers identifying a plurality of information locations having information potentially associated with at least a one of the plurality of search criteria, where at least one of the answers includes at least one input field of a query answer page for entry of at least one feature of the transportation service, the query answer page to be dynamically generated by one of the information locations in response to a query. | 11-29-2012 |
20120310915 | FINDING INDEXED DOCUMENTS - Finding indexed documents is described herein, including: extracting a character string from the search query and segmenting the character string into a plurality of search terms, wherein each search term comprises one or more search words; retrieving indexed document sets corresponding to search words included in the plurality of search terms; processing the retrieved indexed document sets associated with a first search term of the plurality of search terms based at least in part on a selection operation, wherein processing results of the retrieved indexed document sets associated with the first search term comprise search results for the first search term; performing set intersection operations on search results corresponding to the plurality of search terms to generate a results document set; and determining and returning a first subset of indexed documents of the results document set that each includes each of the plurality of search terms. | 12-06-2012 |
20130006958 | Automatic Identification of Related Search Keywords - Keyword expansion is used to expand a particular keyword into multiple related keyword candidates using a collection of data that relates to search queries performed using one or more search engines. The data identifies search terms from associated search queries. A particular keyword is identified and one or more candidate keywords related to the particular keyword are identified based on the data. | 01-03-2013 |
20130054563 | SELF-LEARNING SEMANTIC SEARCH ENGINE - A method, machine readable storage medium, and system for providing a self learning semantic search engine. A semantic network may be set up with initial configuration. A search engine coupled to the semantic network may build indexes and semantic indexes. A user request for business data may be received. The search engine may be accessed via a semantic dispatcher. And based on the access, search engine may update the indexes and semantic indexes. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054564 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS UTILIZING A SEARCH ENGINE - Embodiments of the invention form an information set from the current set of index information available by the operations of the Pre-Search and RunTime Search components of the search engine. A search request that contains search terms and/or other search criteria (e.g. date or file type) is entered by a user through an input interface. The search terms and the information set are worked through the search engine modules to provide the actual results sought by the user. These results are provided to the user via a Return Interface. Embodiments involve a search engine that forms a numeric code index that includes grammar embedded rules from a plurality of documents, converts a search request into the same format as the index, and then compares the index and the search request to form the search results. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054565 | IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Ethernet ‘operation, administration and management’ (OAM) circuits contain monitoring points that exchange ‘management” messages, particularly connectivity fault management messages and performance monitoring messages. This invention is a search process to identify a receiving monitoring point and also a further process to verify, particularly for continuity check messages, a management endpoint. The search processes use information carried in a message, in a hardware efficient method with predictable search times independent of search table size. | 02-28-2013 |
20130066848 | Method and Apparatus for an Application Crawler - A computer-implemented method is provided for searching for files on the Internet. In one embodiment, the method may provide an application crawler that assembles and dynamically instantiates all components of a web page. The instantiated web application may then be analyzed to locate desired components on the web page. This may involve finding and analyzing all clickable items in the application, driving the web application by injecting events, and extracting information from the application and writing it to a file or database. | 03-14-2013 |
20130103669 | 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. | 04-25-2013 |
20130110815 | GENERATING AND PRESENTING DEEP LINKS | 05-02-2013 |
20130110816 | Default Query Rules | 05-02-2013 |
20130110817 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY ORGANIZING AND CLASSIFYING BUSINESSES ON THE WORLD-WIDE WEB | 05-02-2013 |
20130132367 | 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. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132368 | 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. | 05-23-2013 |
20130138625 | 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. | 05-30-2013 |
20130144863 | 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. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144864 | 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. | 06-06-2013 |
20130151501 | INDEX-SIDE SYNONYM GENERATION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for index-side synonym expansion are disclosed. Some implementations include actions of obtaining a token sequence for a resource, wherein each token in the token sequence comprises one or more characters. The actions also include selecting a token from the token sequence, wherein the selected token comprises at least one numeric portion having one or more contiguous numeric characters, and at least one non-numeric portion having one or more non-numeric characters. Further actions include generating a new token corresponding to each of the at least one numeric portions of the selected token and storing data associating the selected token and each of the new tokens corresponding to the at least one numeric portion of the selected token as index terms for the resource, wherein the search engine index is accessed to augment search queries. | 06-13-2013 |
20130173583 | KEYWORD INDEX PRUNING - A system and method is disclosed for profiling a subject's search engine keywords and results based on relevancy feedback. Because the system is based on the search behavior of the user, the profiling is language independent and balances the specificity of search terms against the profiled interests of the user. The system can also score keywords on their search effectiveness and eliminate ineffective keywords from the keyword index. The system can also synthesize new keyword combinations to assist the user in refining the search or acquiring related content. The system has application in text mining, personalization, behavioral search, search engine optimization, and content acquisition, to name but a few applications. | 07-04-2013 |
20130179427 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AGGREGATING SEARCHABLE WEB CONTENT FROM A PLURALITY OF SOCIAL NETWORKS AND PRESENTING SEARCH RESULTS - There is disclosed a method and system for presenting indexed search results from a social network, concurrently with customary search results returned by a search engine hosted on a website, to a user performing a search from a user interface of a user device using the search engine. The user is registered on the social network and has connections thereon. The method comprises: indexing data related to users registered on the social network to produce indexed data, the data obtained from the social network hosted on a website different from the website hosting the search engine; receiving a search query along with a user identifier; performing a search on the indexed data specific to the user's connections to obtain indexed search results specific to the user's connections on the social network; and returning to the user device the indexed search results for presentation on the user interface. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179428 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RANKING RESULTS AND PROVIDING LISTS OF EXPERTS FROM SOCIAL NETWORKS - There is described a method and system for obtaining ranked search results including names of experts who are members of a social network and presenting the ranked search results to a user performing a search from a user interface of a user device. The user is registered on the social network and has connections thereon. The method comprises: indexing data representative of activities of the members on the social network to produce indexed activity data; receiving a search query relative to a subject along with a user identifier from the user device; using the search query and the user identifier, ranking members from the user's connections based on their activities on the social network related to the subject to obtain ranked experts for the subject; returning the names of ranked experts for the subject to the user device for presentation on the user interface. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179429 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL NETWORK USER ACTIVITIES - There is described a method implemented on a social search server for presenting names of members of a social network who shared information about a commercial item to a user performing a search from a user interface of a user device. The user is registered on the social network and has connections thereon. The method comprises: indexing data representative of activities of the members on the social network; extracting commercial items from the indexed activity data; receiving a search query along with a user identifier; identifying a commercial item within the search query; using the search query and the user identifier, performing a search on the extracted commercial items specific to the user's connections to obtain names of members who shared information about the commercial item; and returning the names of the members who shared information about the commercial item to the user device. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179430 | PROXY SERVER FOR APPLICATION ON MOBILE DEVICE - The present document describes a method for presenting modified information obtained from the internet on an application on a mobile device. The mobile device is set to communicate with the internet through a proxy server. A user of the mobile device is registered on a social network from which indexed search content specific to the user's connections on the social network are obtained. The method comprises: modifying, based on the indexed search content specific to the user's connections, an output for the application from an internet server to produce a modified output for the application; and sending the modified output for the application to the mobile device for presentation in the application on the mobile device. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179431 | TOKENIZED JAVASCRIPT INDEXING SYSTEM - A client generates an index token for each of a plurality of data objects received from a server as a function of at least one of the plurality of fields of the data object. The client creates an index for the plurality of data objects based on the generated index token for each data object. The client may then utilize the index to search plurality of data objects to identify and render a subset of the data objects. | 07-11-2013 |
20130185277 | ECOSYSTEM FOR MANUALLY MARKED SEARCHABLE FEEDS ON PUBLISHER SITES - Techniques for generating and publishing searchable feeds for websites are provided. An indication is received of content of interest of a selected website. The selected website is crawled to retrieve a plurality of pages. The retrieved pages are processed according to the indicated content of interest to generate structured content. The structured content is indexed to generate an index. A query interface is provided that receives queries directed to the index, applies the received queries to the index, and transmits responses to the received queries. | 07-18-2013 |
20130191367 | 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. | 07-25-2013 |
20130226900 | 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. | 08-29-2013 |
20130246390 | REAL TIME CONTENT SEARCHING IN SOCIAL NETWORK - Indexing and retrieving real time content in a social networking system is disclosed. A user-term index includes user-term partitions, each user-term partition comprising temporal databases. As a post is received from a user, a user identifier, a post identifier, and a post is extracted. An object store communicatively coupled to a temporal database for recently received content is queried to determine whether terms in the post has already been stored. A term identifier is stored in the user-term index with the user and post identifiers. A forward index stores the post by post identifier. Responsive to a search query, the user-term index is searched by the user's connections and the terms. A real time search engine compiles the results of the user-term index query and retrieves the stored posts from the forward index. The search results may then be ranked and cached before presentation to the searching user. | 09-19-2013 |
20130262430 | DOMINANT IMAGE DETERMINATION FOR SEARCH RESULTS - Architecture that computes a dominant image from one or more images on a webpage. A dominant image classifier scans webpages in an offline-created index to identify the prominent images in the webpages. In a more specific implementation the image selected is the image associated with a name query. Face detection technology can be utilized to identify which of the images on a given webpage contain faces. A query classifier identifies queries that contain people names. In the context of search engines and search result pages, the web results for name queries can further include prominent people face images as thumbnail images. Additional facts (structured data) can further be included that together with the results elements of caption title, snippet and attribute (uniform resource locator (URL)) provide an improved summary of the person on the page. | 10-03-2013 |
20130332445 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING CUSTOM CRAWL-TIME METADATA - A method for providing metadata to a search engine for a document that is not in a mark-up language receives a request for contents of the document and locates metadata associated with the document. The method further creates name-value pairs for the metadata and provides to the search engine server a response comprising the name-value pair in an HTTP (or HTTPS) header and the contents of the document. In other implementations, a method includes sending a request for contents of the document and receiving a response to the request comprising an HTTP header with metadata about the document in a name-value pair and the document's content. The method also includes extracting the name-value pair from the HTTP header, creating a mark-up language tag for the name-value pair, and providing the make-up language tag and the contents of the document in a mark-up language format to a search index creation component. | 12-12-2013 |
20140012832 | Automated Electronic Discovery Collections and Preservations - A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for collecting information from data sources by receiving a collection request at a collection tool to collect information, where the collection request includes data source information indicating a data source from which to retrieve the information. The data source information in the collection request is associated with one or more electronic data repositories in response to the data source indicated by the data source information being previously unidentified to the collection tool. The information is collected from the one or more associated electronic data repositories. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012833 | PROTECTION OF DATA PRIVACY IN AN ENTERPRISE SYSTEM - Various embodiments of systems and methods for protection of data privacy in an enterprise system are described herein. A data request is generated using an application. The data request is sent to a query engine and a database query is generated. A database is queried using the database query and a database response is generated. The database response is sent to the query engine. A blocking table is searched for an identifier in the database response. The blocking table comprises a listing of identifiers identifying tuples with one or more blocked attributes and a data overlay for redacting the one or more blocked attributes. The data overlay is substituted for the one or more blocked attributes in the database response if the identifier is found in the blocking table. After substituting, the database response is sent to the application. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012834 | Automated Electronic Discovery Collections and Preservations - A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for collecting information from data sources by receiving a collection request at a collection tool to collect information, where the collection request includes data source information indicating a data source from which to retrieve the information. The data source information in the collection request is associated with one or more electronic data repositories in response to the data source indicated by the data source information being previously unidentified to the collection tool. The information is collected from the one or more associated electronic data repositories. | 01-09-2014 |
20140019434 | HIGH-EFFICIENCY SELECTION OF RUNTIME RULES FOR PROGRAMMABLE SEARCH - A method and associated systems for the efficient selection of runtime rules for programmable search engines, in which a processor of a computer system translates a set of programmable search-engine runtime rules into a set of fielded documents and then partitions the fielded documents into optimized clusters that are each in turn converted into an inverted index. When a user submits a query, the search engine converts the query into a set of fielded queries and uses the set of inverted indices and the set of fielded queries to identify a candidate subset of the runtime rules. The search engine matches this candidate subset against the input query to select a final set of applicable runtime rules. | 01-16-2014 |
20140025657 | AUTOMATED LANDING PAGE GENERATION AND PROMOTION FOR REAL ESTATE LISTINGS - A system for automatic landing page creation comprises a processor configured to determine a set of popular search queries. The processor is configured to create, automatically, a landing page for each of the set of popular search queries. | 01-23-2014 |
20140032524 | PROVIDING AN INTERFACE TO ACCESS WEBSITE ACTIONS - Providing an interface to request actions of a website includes various elements. For example, website instructions of the website are provided to a search engine, the website instructions describing the website tool. The website instructions may be indexed by the search engine to be referenced when servicing a search query. When the website is deemed relevant to the search query, a search-result snippet may be built to include the interface to the website tool. As such, the interface may be provided in the search-results webpage. The interface may be used in the search-results webpage or may be stored locally. The interface may be used to access the website tool without a browser navigating to a landing page of the website. | 01-30-2014 |
20140059035 | PROCESS FOR GENERATING A COMPOSITE SEARCH DOCUMENT USED IN COMPUTER-BASED INFORMATION SEARCHING - A computer-based process for generating a composite search document for use in the electronic search and retrieval of corresponding and relevant documents and/or information from an existing database or collection of electronic documents. A composite search document is created by aggregating blocks of text in an interface into a single document, which is submitted to the mathematical space of a conceptual search index or similar search engine for the purpose of performing a query and returning results. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059036 | ELASTIC SCALING OF DATA VOLUME - Embodiments are directed towards a system and method for a cloud-based front end that may abstract and enable access to the underlying cloud-hosted elements and objects that may be part of a multi-tenant application, such as a search application. Search objects may be employed to access indexed objects. An amount of indexed data accessible to a user may be based on an index storage limit selected by the user, such that data that exceeds the index storage limit may continue to be indexed. Also, one or more projects can be elastically scaled for a user to provide resources that may meet the specific needs of each project. | 02-27-2014 |
20140067788 | System and Method for Contact Information Integration with Search Results - A system for contact information integration with search results, comprising a queue manager; an enterprise communications system; and a search engine. Upon receipt of search query from a user, the search engine submits a request to the queue manager. The queue manager: obtains from the enterprise communications system a communications status comprising an estimated wait time; sends a notification to the search engine advising the search engine of the estimated wait time for service; and upon receiving from the search engine a request to generate a callback to the user from the enterprise of a specific communications type, directing an enterprise communications system of the enterprise that is associated with the specific communications type to initiate a callback to the user from whom the search engine query was received in response to the callback request received from the search engine. | 03-06-2014 |
20140074817 | DATA MODEL FOR MACHINE DATA FOR SEMANTIC SEARCH - Embodiments are directed towards generating data models that may give semantic meaning for unstructured data or structured data that may include data generated and/or received by search engines, including a time series engine. Data models also may be generated to provide semantic meaning to structured data. A data model may be composed of a hierarchical data model objects analogous to an object-oriented programming class hierarchy. Users may employ a data modeling application to produce reports using search objects that may be part of, or associated with the data model. The data modeling application may employ the search object and the data model to generate a query string for searching a data repository to produce a result set. A data modeling application may map the result set data to data model objects that may be used to generate reports. | 03-13-2014 |
20140081948 | SEARCHING FILES - Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to searching files. In aspects, a search engine is able to search not only the current files but also is able to search for deleted and previous versions of files that satisfy queries. The search engine may maintain an index that facilitates searches. In addition, the search engine may also determine not only that a file satisfies a query but what version(s) of the file satisfies the query. | 03-20-2014 |
20140089290 | 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. | 03-27-2014 |
20140095467 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEMORY EFFICIENT, UPDATE OPTIMIZED, TRANSACTIONAL FULL-TEXT INDEX VIEW MAINTENANCE - Methods and systems are directed to an update-optimized and memory-efficient method for transactional full-text index view maintenance. Embodiments include a method and system of reducing the overhead requirements of maintaining a transactional index view in the case of a large number of updates at any particular time. The method involves maintaining a single blacklist bitmap across updated transactional query views, applying the latest set of updates to the bitmap when a new view is required, and post-adjusting the bitmap when the transactional view is created to ensure that entries that should be visible have not been removed. | 04-03-2014 |
20140114948 | Search Engine for a Knowledge Management System - A system includes a memory operable to store a search index. The system also includes a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor is operable to receive a search request relating to information stored in an ontology. The processor is further operable to parse the search request to determine a search type. The processor is further operable to query, based at least in part on the search type, one or more of the search index and the ontology. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114949 | Knowledge Management System - A system includes a memory operable to store an ontology and a search index. The system also includes a data agent operable to generate a knowledge assertion by parsing one or more data elements retrieved from a data source. The system also includes a knowledge management engine comprising a processor. The knowledge management engine is operable to validate the knowledge assertion based on the ontology. The knowledge management engine is further operable to determine whether to update the ontology with the knowledge assertion. The system also includes a search engine operable to generate the search index at least in part by indexing data stored in the ontology. | 04-24-2014 |
20140129543 | SEARCH SERVICE INCLUDING INDEXING TEXT CONTAINING NUMBERS IN PART USING ONE OR MORE NUMBER INDEX STRUCTURES - Embodiments provide indexing and searching features, but are not so limited. In an embodiment, a search service is configured to use one or more separate number index structures as part of providing a rich search service that includes reliable numerical value range searching functionality. A method of an embodiment operates to extract numbers from original strings of electronic documents to provide a list of terms for a main dictionary and a list of numbers for a separate number index structure as part of providing a search service that efficiently indexes text that contains numbers. Other embodiments are included. | 05-08-2014 |
20140136510 | HYBRID TABLE IMPLEMENTATION BY USING BUFFER POOL AS PERMANENT IN-MEMORY STORAGE FOR MEMORY-RESIDENT DATA - Embodiments relate to a method, system, and computer program product for data management. An aspect includes a search index that is created for a database. The search index has a reference value of a first or a second type associating data to a storage location in a first memory or a second memory respectively. Responsive to a data retrieval request, data is accessed using the reference value from the first or the second memory. If there is a data migration between the first and second memory storage, the reference values are then recalculated and altered in the search index accordingly. | 05-15-2014 |
20140149384 | System and Method for Generating User Profiles for Human Resources - A system and method for generating user profiles for human resources are described. The system includes an enterprise service bus configured to receive a request to transmit media to a device and route the media to a device and network appliance as a service (NAaaS) application services configured to receive the request from the enterprise services bus, generate a user profile for a user, log a device usage entry that includes a unique identifier for the user, a unique identifier for the device and an action associated with the request, determine one or more keywords relating to content in the media, generate an index that includes the one or more keywords and update the user profile for the user based on the one or more keywords. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149385 | SEARCHING CONTENT IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING NETWORKS - A distributed search system includes a central server having an index of data, wherein the index of data is also available on a plurality of computing devices in a distributed computing network, the plurality of computing devices being distinct from the central server, each the computing device having a cache in which the computing device automatically stores data generated during the course of the computing device's access to another computing network distinct from the distributed computing network. | 05-29-2014 |
20140156631 | DECORATION OF SEARCH RESULTS BY THIRD-PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS - An ecosystem that enables content providers to decorate search results with interactive content. The searching user can then interact with the content and view the content without leaving the search results page. The content provider sends content and metadata to a content enrichment enabler that transforms the content into an enriched content, and receives back from the enrichment enabler a location identifier which includes information that identifies the provider and the location of the enriched content. The content provider then embeds the identifier in each of the content provider webpages for which such content has been produced. The identifier is indexed by a search engine to identify the interactive content and source thereof for surfacing on a search results page. The search result is decorated with an indicator that the user recognizes as the availability of the enriched content, and uses to access the content via the web page. | 06-05-2014 |
20140164352 | SEARCH AND NAVIGATION TO SPECIFIC DOCUMENT CONTENT - A computer-implemented system and method for search and navigation on a network to find and display specific search identified information in documents. Queries are sent to search engine services and responses comprising snippets are returned. Then, in response to only one or a few user inputs, documents are opened and locations of content matching or best matching the snippets are found reliably and distinguished in a display. | 06-12-2014 |
20140172821 | GENERATING FILTERS FOR REFINING SEARCH RESULTS - Filters are generated by analyzing a set of search results most relevant to a search query to determine filter values that may be of most interest to the user. A search query is received and is classified into a query segment that best corresponds to the search query so that filter categories associated with the query segment can be identified. Based on an analysis of search results most relevant to the search query, metadata associated with these search results is used to formulate filter values for each filter category. The filter values are ordered based on their respective frequency of presence in the search results. The search results, along with the filter categories and filter values, are communicated for presentation. | 06-19-2014 |
20140181071 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING CAPACITY OF SEARCH INDEX PARTITIONS - A search system can maintain a search index of metadata and text for objects in a repository, repositories or distributed across a network. The search index can be divided into partitions with a partition assigned a first capacity utilization threshold and a second capacity utilization threshold. If the capacity utilization of the partition is below the first threshold, the system can add, update and delete information in the partition. If the capacity utilization of the partition is above the first threshold, the system can update and delete information in the partition, but cannot add information for new objects to the partition. If the capacity utilization of the partition is above the second threshold, the system can enter a rebalancing mode in which it seeks to rebalance capacity utilization between partitions. The behavior of the system can change depending upon the size of a partition relative to its configurable thresholds. | 06-26-2014 |
20140188839 | USING SOCIAL SIGNALS TO RANK SEARCH RESULTS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for using social signals to rank local search results. Local entity website addresses are matched with social network addresses and social network profiles are matched with local entity index records. Once it is known that a particular address or local entity index record aligns with a particular social network address or profile, interest signals associated with the social network are utilized to rank the particular address or local entity index record among other search results. In this way, the social network popularity of an entity may be taken into account in determining whether to provide information about the entity as a search result. Additionally, ranking may be improved for entities having incomplete or erroneous information available in association with a social network and for entities having a strong social network presence but a limited web presence. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188840 | NEXT GENERATION NEAR REAL-TIME INDEXING - Methods and systems to build and utilize a search infrastructure are described. The system generates index information, including document updates and indexes. The system receives event notifications as the document updates are received and accumulates the index information until published. A query engine receives a search query from a client machine and identifies search results based on the query and the index information. The system communicates the search results, over the network, to the client machine. | 07-03-2014 |
20140201187 | System and Method of Search Indexes Using Key-Value Attributes to Searchable Metadata - Systems, methods, and computer program products for searching objects, metadata associated with the objects, and attributes assigned to or associated with the metadata. Referring to herein as metadata for the metadata, these attributes may be associated with one or more metadata field values of a metadata field name which, in turn, may be associated with an object being or already indexed in a search index of a search system. Each attribute may be optional, dynamically created, indexed, and searchable via the search index. There can be multiple attributes associated with the same metadata field value, each being represented as a key-value pair. This metadata for the metadata approach can be highly efficient. For example, the ability to search multiple attributes associated with the same metadata field can eliminate the potential need to create multiple metadata fields for the same value in different languages, countries, etc. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201188 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCH DISCOVERY - A search system as disclosed analyzes a file name to identify any potential tokens or words that might be relevant, and creates supplementary information for the file name. The supplementary information is indexed and searchable, thereby significantly improving the ability of a search engine to discover and return successful search hits. | 07-17-2014 |
20140214792 | IMAGE SEARCH APPARATUS AND METHODS THEREOF - Embodiments of a method and apparatus of image search are provided. An exemplary method of image search includes: receiving a request and returning a web page, where the returned web page allows uploading an image and adding annotation content for the image; receiving and storing the image and the annotation content for the image; and providing the annotation content for the image as a search index to an image search engine. Using the disclosed method and server, more searches related to information in an image can be provided. Moreover, because more information related to merchandise in an image can be provided to a viewer, it is believed that more online transactions can be facilitated. | 07-31-2014 |
20140250100 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INDEXING AND SEARCHING ADMINISTRATIVE DATA - A data management system for indexing administrative data of a contact center is disclosed. The data management system includes one or more unified communication devices configured to store the administrative data. The data management system further includes a crawler configured to collect the administrative data from the one or more unified communication devices. The data management system further includes a probing device configured to enable the crawler to communicate and retrieve the administrative data from the one or more unified communication devices. The data management system further includes a temporary database configured to store the collected administrative data; wherein the temporary database stores the collected administrative data in a plurality of flat file tables. The data management system further includes an indexing server configured to index the stored administrative data; wherein the indexed administrative data is searchable through one or more user search queries. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250101 | REAL TIME CONTENT SEARCHING IN SOCIAL NETWORK - Indexing and retrieving real time content in a social networking system is disclosed. A user-term index includes user-term partitions, each user-term partition comprising temporal databases. As a post is received from a user, a user identifier, a post identifier, and a post is extracted. An object store communicatively coupled to a temporal database for recently received content is queried to determine whether terms in the post has already been stored. A term identifier is stored in the user-term index with the user and post identifiers. A forward index stores the post by post identifier. Responsive to a search query, the user-term index is searched by the user's connections and the terms. A real time search engine compiles the results of the user-term index query and retrieves the stored posts from the forward index. The search results may then be ranked and cached before presentation to the searching user. | 09-04-2014 |
20140280017 | AGGREGATIONS FOR TRENDING TOPIC SUMMARIZATION - Architecture that enables extraction of pieces of content from the Internet, social networks, in particular, and/or of a user's immediate circle of friends and family, where the content relates to trending topics of those networks as relevant to a search query. The content effectively summarizes a trending topic (e.g., of a single social network or across multiple social networks). The summary can be characterized by different content types, such as images only, text only, and so on. The extracted content can then be presented in a number of different ways such as in a display that visually rotates through the different types of content, such as trending images, summarizing updates, and trending webpages, for example. Another technique for presentation of the extracted social content can be as user-selectable “hotspots” on a page or desktop, and which can display the trending topic summaries. | 09-18-2014 |
20140324819 | EFFICIENT FORWARD RANKING IN A SEARCH ENGINE - Methods and computer storage media are provided for generating entries for documents in a forward index. A document and its document identification are received, in addition to static features that are query-independent. The document is parsed into tokens to form a token stream corresponding to the document. Relevant data used to calculate rankings of document is identified and a position of the data is determined. The entry is then generated from the document identification, the token stream of the document, the static features, and the positional information of the relevant data. The entry is stored in the forward index. | 10-30-2014 |
20140358892 | SINGLE-POINT METADATA DRIVEN SEARCH CONFIGURATION, INDEXING AND EXECUTION - Systems and methods for application search configuration, indexing, and execution. A method includes receiving a metadata definition for search and indexing configuration and generating a transfer mode definition to export objects for indexing. The method includes identifying objects to be indexed according to the metadata definition and extracting data according to the transfer mode definition. The method includes indexing the extracted data. The method can include executing queries according to the meta definition. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358893 | RULES-BASED KNOWLEDGE-DRIVEN SEARCH FILTERS - Methods for product data management and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method for rules-based knowledge-driven search filters includes receiving metadata for a plurality of searchable objects, the metadata including at least one of an object type definition and object properties. The method includes defining search filter rules based on user properties and data conditions. The method includes performing a search according to a rule-based configuration, the rule-based configuration including filters for object properties and filter ordering rules. The method includes displaying search results according to the rule-based configuration. | 12-04-2014 |
20140365462 | INDEX DATA FOR NATIVE APPLICATIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus for determining, for a native application that generates an application environment for display on a user device within the native application, the native application operating independent of a browser application that can operate on the user device, a set of environment instances of the native application, each environment instance of the native application being different from each other environment instance of the native application; for each environment instance: determining textual data describing features of the corresponding environment instance, the textual data being data that is not rendered to be visible when the native application renders the environment instance on a user device display, generating, from the textual data, native application environment instance data describing content of the environment instance, and indexing the native application environment instance data for the native application in an index that is searchable by a search engine. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365463 | MODULAR IMAGE MINING AND SEARCH - A system for modular image mining and search, comprising a plurality of image capture devices, a search engine, an indexing engine, a database, and user interface software. A plurality of image capture devices capture images and store them to a database. The indexing engine indexes images to create image data for each image with associated metadata and stores the information to the database. The interface software is used to request search queries via a search engine. The search engine accesses the image data to find images or parts of images that satisfy the search query. | 12-11-2014 |
20140372405 | COMPUTER-BASED COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH SERVICE - A web-based computer system is programmed to present a user interface to a user for viewing with a browser program or mobile application. The user can enter a search query into the interface and the computer system forwards the received search query to a search engine. Search results are received from the search engine and the computer system creates a search record for at least one search result. The computer system is programmed to allow the user to save search records to a board. In addition, the user can add one or more of text, videos, URL links, tables and code segments to a search record. In one embodiment, a user can augment the search records by entering search terms into a search bar that is present on the board. | 12-18-2014 |
20140379689 | Framework for Suggesting Search Terms - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for presenting local query suggestions. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of determining a general location and a specific location for a client device. Methods also include while receiving a query stem, and before receiving an input submitting a query to the search engine, obtaining general queries containing the query stem, each general query having a first quality measure. Methods also include obtaining local queries containing the query stem, each local query having a second quality measure. Methods also include combining at least one of the general queries and at least one of the local queries into combined queries, the combined queries having a presentation order based on the respective quality measures of the queries. Methods also include presenting the queries. | 12-25-2014 |
20150012520 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SEARCH FUNCTION IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - A method and an apparatus for performing a search function by selecting a specific text displayed on a screen are provided. The method includes selecting a text displayed on a screen, extracting search keywords from the selected text and displaying the extracted search keywords, recognizing selection of at least one of the displayed search keywords, and performing a search using the at least one selected search keyword. Accordingly, a user can easily and conveniently search for desired information without directly inputting a search keyword in the search window. | 01-08-2015 |
20150012521 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXPOSING INTERNAL SEARCH INDICES TO INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES - A system and method for exposing internal search indices to Internet search engines. The internal search indices are exposed to external search engines in such a way that the data may be segregated into at least two types including one layer of search data specifically for the search engines, and another for potential users of the application. This significantly improves the probability of discovery by search engines and also provides for presentation of discovered content to users in a manner consistent with the content itself, or consistent with the intended controls or presentations established by the content's owner. The system and method also includes one or more components that reproduce information about IP in a format that search engines can recognize and locate. | 01-08-2015 |
20150026153 | SEARCH ENGINE FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM - A search engine performs semantic analysis of unstructured search terms to generate relational database queries. By understanding the semantics, the search engine more effectively identifies and predicts what information the user is searching for and provides more in-depth user assistance. The search engine uses different ranking schemes to identify which data is most likely associated with search terms and provides both row level and object level data security. The search engine may identify ambiguous search requests and allows the user to select different join paths that create different mappings between the data. The search engine may generate worksheets containing the selected mappings. | 01-22-2015 |
20150046426 | METHOD AND/OR SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING NETWORK CONTENT | 02-12-2015 |
20150058314 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ACROSS DISPARATE INFORMATION SYSTEMS - An information integration system may include a set of integration services embodied on one or more server machines in a computing environment. The set of integration services may include connectors communicatively connected to disparate information systems. The connectors are configured for integrating data utilizing a common model comprising a content management interoperability services data model, common property definitions, and a common security model particularly defined for use by the set of integration services. Responsive to a user query to search disparate information systems or a subset thereof, an application may communicate metadata of interest contained in the user query to a search engine which locates, via a unified index, requested data from the disparate information systems or a subset thereof. The search engine returns search results referencing the requested data to the application which interprets the search results and displays a visualization thereof on a client device. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058315 | SELF-LEARNING SEMANTIC SEARCH ENGINE - A method, machine readable storage medium, and system for providing a self learning semantic search engine. A semantic network may be set up with initial configuration. A search engine coupled to the semantic network may build indexes and semantic indexes. A user request for business data may be received. The search engine may be accessed via a semantic dispatcher. And based on the access, search engine may update the indexes and semantic indexes. | 02-26-2015 |
20150074079 | Longest Prefix Match Using Binary Search Tree - Longest Prefix Match (LPM) is implemented using a binary tree based search algorithm. Masked entries are stored in a plurality of binary search engines, wherein each of the binary search engines stores masked entries of a corresponding mask length. A search value is applied to each of the binary search engines in parallel. The search value is masked within each of the binary search engines, thereby creating a plurality of masked search values, each having a masked length equal to the mask length of the corresponding binary search engine. Each of the masked search values is compared with the masked entries of the corresponding binary search engine. An LPM result is selected from the binary search engine that detects a match, and has the longest corresponding mask length. Alternately, each binary search engine stores masked entries of N mask lengths, and N consecutive comparisons are performed to identify the LPM. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074080 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING CAPACITY OF SEARCH INDEX PARTITIONS - A search system can maintain a search index of metadata and text for objects in a repository, repositories or distributed across a network. The search index can be divided into partitions with a partition assigned a first capacity utilization threshold and a second capacity utilization threshold. If the capacity utilization of the partition is below the first threshold, the system can add, update and delete information in the partition. If the capacity utilization of the partition is above the first threshold, the system can update and delete information in the partition, but cannot add information for new objects to the partition. If the capacity utilization of the partition is above the second threshold, the system can enter a rebalancing mode in which it seeks to rebalance capacity utilization between partitions. The behavior of the system can change depending upon the size of a partition relative to its configurable thresholds. | 03-12-2015 |
20150088853 | GEOSPATIAL SEARCH PORTAL, METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME, AND SYSTEMS INCLUDING THE SAME - A geospatial search portal, systems including the same, and methods of making and using the geospatial search portal are disclosed. The geospatial search portal generally includes an electronic information harvester, a tagger, metadata analysis logic, an electronic map having a plurality of electronic locations thereon, and a processor. The electronic information harvester seeks and retrieves relevant scholarly, technical, encyclopedic, factual and/or archival information. The tagger associates a plurality of georeferences and a plurality of metadata to each item of information. The metadata analysis logic analyzes the metadata and organizes the metadata into index terms and/or map symbols, and may comprise an indexer and a depictor. The processor is configured to display at least some of the associated information on the electronic map and/or in a textbox when the electronic location(s) on the electronic map, the georeference(s), and/or the metadata is/are electronically selected. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088854 | SECURING APPLICATION INFORMATION IN SYSTEM-WIDE SEARCH ENGINES - A system for securing application information in a shared, system-wide search service. Each application can register a security filtering module that is to be used at search time to filter data associated with that application. When a user performs a search, initial, unfiltered search results are obtained based the contents of the shared search index. The unfiltered search results are organized by application, and previously registered filter modules are called to perform user specific, per-application filtering on the initial results. The filter modules cause data to which the user issuing the search request does not have access to be removed from the search results, on a per application basis. Those of the initial search results that are determined in this way to not be accessible to the user issuing the search request are removed, resulting in a set of filtered search results that are presented to the user. The filtered search results thus contain indications only of data that is accessible to the user. In this way, the system-wide search service filters search results to remove indications of data which match the search criteria provided by the user, but to which the user does not have access, based on a conveniently extensible, per-application search result filtering process. | 03-26-2015 |
20150112963 | TIME AND LOCATION BASED INFORMATION SEARCH AND DISCOVERY - According to embodiments herein, real-time searching and discovery of topics, stories, events, and incidents may be based on location (a user's current location or a specified location) and time (the current time or a specified time, in the past, present, or future). | 04-23-2015 |
20150120695 | INDEXING OF FILE IN A HADOOP CLUSTER - A file indexing system for indexing a file to be stored onto a distributed file system includes a segmentation module to segment the file into a plurality of segments. The file indexing system further includes an index generation module to initiate indexing of the file through a plurality of nodes of a Hadoop cluster, where each of the plurality of nodes indexes one or more segments from amongst the plurality of segments to generate at least one index corresponding to the one or more segments. The file indexing system further includes an index transfer module to store the at least one index onto the distributed file system. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120696 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING DOMAIN NAME AND DIRECTORY RECOMMENDATIONS - A system receives an indication that an entity has obtained a first domain name. The system receives an indication as to an industry type associated with a website associated with the first domain name. Based on the received industry type, a set of keywords is selected which are related to products and/or services. An entity selection of one or more keywords from the set is received. Using the keyword selections, a keyword directory is identified and associated domain names identifying a product or service is identified. A domain recommendation is generated based at least in part on the identified domain names, wherein the respective second level domains include the identity of the entity. The domain recommendation is transmitted to the entity terminal. At least partly in response to an indication that the entity obtained the first recommended domain name, the first recommended domain name is included the identified keyword directory. | 04-30-2015 |
20150142772 | Method and System for Unified Searching and Incremental Searching Across and Within Multiple Documents - A user-interface system and method for searching among multiple documents and searching for subsections within individual documents using a single search interface on an input-constrained user device having a screen and a keypad. | 05-21-2015 |
20150302036 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL USING CONTENT ALGEBRA - The invention comprises systems, methods and computer programs for information retrieval using content algebra. In an embodiment, the invention comprises (i) receiving a first plurality of search results returned by the search engine in response to a first search query, (ii) generating a first plurality of search result vectors, wherein each of the first plurality of search result vectors may be generated based on a corresponding search result from among the first plurality of search results and may comprise data describing the corresponding search result, (iii) generating a first search result image vector based on data from the first plurality of search result vectors, and (iv) displaying information representative of the first plurality of search results on a display device such that visual configuration of the displayed information may be based on data within the first search result image vector. | 10-22-2015 |
20150310107 | VIDEO AND AUDIO CONTENT SEARCH ENGINE - A method is provided for indexing video and audio content on the internet, comprising: searching the internet for files containing audio or video (A/V) content; obtaining text associated with a file containing A/V content; generating a first searchable index of the associated text; storing the first searchable index in a database; processing audio of files that do not contain associated text through a speech-to-text recognition module to generate first processed associated text; generating a second searchable index of the first processed associated text; storing the second searchable index with the searchable first index in the database; and making the first and second searchable indexes stored in the database available to users who submit search request terms to be matched with the associated text and first processed associated text in the database. Rather than storing sounds as part of a speech-to-text training process, Cymatics images may be created and stored. | 10-29-2015 |
20150317396 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROTECTING DERIVED METADATA WHEN UPDATING RECORDS WITHIN A SEARCH ENGINE - A search engine may maintain a list of derived metadata. When an event occurs that requires updating a search index, the search engine can determine which metadata is derived metadata and take appropriate actions with respect to the derived metadata. For example, if a request is received to update the index for a particular object, the search engine may protect the derived metadata from change while updating the other metadata in the index. As another example, if a request is received to update the text content for the object, the search engine may change the text content and the derived metadata. By identifying derived metadata, the search engine can protect the derived metadata from change when a request is received that otherwise causes metadata to change and can change the derived metadata when a request is received that would otherwise not change the metadata portion of the index. | 11-05-2015 |
20150324430 | Behavioral Targeting System That Generates User Profiles for Target Objectives - A behavioral targeting system determines user profiles from online activity. The system includes a plurality of models that define parameters for determining a user profile score. Event information, which comprises on-line activity of the user, is received at an entity. To generate a user profile score, is model is selected. The model comprises recency, intensity and frequency dimension parameters. The behavioral targeting system generates a user profile score for a target objective, such as brand advertising or direct response advertising. The parameters from the model are applied to generate the user profile score in a category. The behavioral targeting system has application for use in ad serving to on-line users. | 11-12-2015 |
20150339390 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PERFORM TEXTUAL QUERIES ON VOICE COMMUNICATIONS - Methods and systems to perform textual queries on voice communications. The system has an index service for storing a audio content data sets for voice communications. The audio content data sets include at least three audio content data sets for each voice communication. The three audio content data sets include a first audio content data set generated using a speech-to-text conversion technique, a second audio content data set generated using a phoneme lattice technique, and a third audio content data set generated using a keyword identification technique. The system includes a search engine configured to: receive search criteria from a user, the search criteria having at least one keyword; search each of the first, second and third audio content data sets for at least a portion of the plurality of voice communications to identify voice communications matching the search criteria; and combine the voice communications identified by each search to produce a combined list of identified voice communications. | 11-26-2015 |
20150347428 | Automated Electronic Discovery Collections and Preservations - A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for collecting information from data sources by receiving a collection request at a collection tool to collect information, where the collection request includes data source information indicating a data source from which to retrieve the information. The data source information in the collection request is associated with one or more electronic data repositories in response to the data source indicated by the data source information being previously unidentified to the collection tool. The information is collected from the one or more associated electronic data repositories. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347584 | INDEX DATA FOR NATIVE APPLICATIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus for determining, for a native application that generates an application environment for display on a user device within the native application, the native application operating independent of a browser application that can operate on the user device, a set of environment instances of the native application, each environment instance of the native application being different from each other environment instance of the native application; for each environment instance: determining textual data describing features of the corresponding environment instance, the textual data being data that is not rendered to be visible when the native application renders the environment instance on a user device display, generating, from the textual data, native application environment instance data describing content of the environment instance, and indexing the native application environment instance data for the native application in an index that is searchable by a search engine. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347594 | MULTI-DOMAIN SEARCH ON A COMPUTING DEVICE - Systems and methods are disclosed for improving search results returned to a user from one or more domains, utilizing query features learned locally on the user's device. One or more domains can inform a computing device of one or more features related to a search query upon which to the computing device can apply local learning. A local search system can include a local database, a local search history and feedback history database, and a local learning system to identify features about query terms. The features can be learned from the user's interaction with both local search results and remote search results, without sending the user interaction information or other user identification information to a remote search engine. A locally learned feature can be used to extend a query, bias a query term, or filter query results. | 12-03-2015 |
20150356197 | PROVIDING INTERACTION BETWEEN A FIRST CONTENT SET AND A SECOND CONTENT SET IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM - Interaction is provided between a first content set and a second content set, both of which are loaded into a data structure. When an event associated with loading of the second content set is detected, the second content set is parsed to identify at least one sub-set of the second content set. The identified sub-set is checked against a first data set associated with the first content set to determine whether the identified sub-set matches the first data set. If a match is found, an action associated with the least one identified sub-set is executed and the data structure is modified. | 12-10-2015 |
20150370810 | INDEXING ACTIONS FOR RESOURCES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for indexing actions for resources. In an aspect, a method receiving, for each resource a plurality of resources that are each accessible by a user device, action data describing actions supported by each resource, each action being an action that can be performed by the user device processing the resource; for each resource: determining, from the action data, an action type for each action supported by the resource, determining, from the action data, action parameters for each action supported by the resource, and indexing the action data, action types and action parameters for the resource in an index that is searchable by a search engine. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370812 | Search Results for Native Applications - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating native application search results. In one aspect, a method includes accessing application package files for native applications, and for each native application: determining, from the application package file, an application name of the native application, accessing, at the data processing apparatus, application pages of the native application, and for each of the application pages, generating application page data describing content of the application page, an application page name of the application page, the content described by the application page data including text that a user device displays on the application page when the user device displays the application page, and indexing the application page data and application icon for the native application in an index that is searchable by a search engine. | 12-24-2015 |
20150379014 | BATCH-OPTIMIZED RENDER AND FETCH ARCHITECTURE - Implementations include a batch-optimized render and fetch architecture. An example method performed by the architecture includes receiving a request from a batch process to render a web page and initializing a virtual clock and a task list for rendering the web page. The virtual clock stands still when a request for an embedded item is outstanding and when a task is ready to run. The method may also include generating a rendering result for the web page when the virtual clock matches a run time for a stop task in the task list, and providing the rendering result to the batch process. Another example method includes receiving a request from a batch process to render a web page, identifying an embedded item in the web page, and determining, based on a rewrite rule, that the embedded item has content that is duplicative of content for a previously fetched embedded item. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379128 | DEEP LINKS FOR NATIVE APPLICATIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automatically generating native application deep links and indexing content retrieved from the deep links. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379133 | User Index with Nicknames - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving data that includes an association between a nickname and a primary name, determining whether the association meets a nickname association threshold, and generating at least one expanded index entry that associates the nickname with the primary name when the association meets the nickname association threshold. The data may include a log entry indicating that a search for the nickname that returned the primary name as a result was followed by a user selection of the primary name, and the method may further include incrementing a counter value associated with the nickname and the primary name. The data may include a first log entry indicating that a search for the nickname returned a result the user did not select, followed by a second log entry indicating that a search for the primary name returned the primary name, and a user selected the primary name. | 12-31-2015 |
20160019238 | GENERATING TEXTUAL SUMMARY ABOUT PHYSICAL LOCATION BASED ON COMPUTING INTERACTIONS PERTAINING TO PHYSICAL LOCATION - Methods and apparatus for determining aspects of locations based on computing interactions of users that pertain to the locations. In some implementations, an aspect of a location may be determined based on comparing a first computing interaction measure for the location to a second measure. The first computing interaction measure may be determined based on a first group of computing interactions that pertain to the location. In some implementations, the second measure may be determined based on a second group of addition computing interactions. In some implementations, a textual summary may be generated automatically based on the first and/or second computing interaction measure, and/or based on the determined aspect. | 01-21-2016 |
20160026715 | DETERMINING QUALITY OF TIER ASSIGNMENTS - Technologies pertaining to computing a tiering policy that defines how digital items are desirable stored across a plurality of different storage tiers are described herein. A data repository that comprises data that is indicative of historic user interaction with a search engine is accessed. Subsequently, a tiering policy for digital items that are retrievable by way of the search engine is computed based at least in part upon the data that is indicative of the historic user interaction with the search engine. Retrieval times for digital items in the data storage tiers differ across the data storage tiers. | 01-28-2016 |
20160041986 | Smart Search Engine - The subject disclosure presents methods and systems for implementing a smart search engine (SSE). The SSE allows users input a natural language query, parses the query, searches for the most proper entity (or relation) from a Knowledge Base, shows the found entity (or relation) with its semantic-rich refinements, and displays the search results sorted by a proposed ranking function. Search results include a list of Web documents that are semantically indexed by the queried entity (or relation). Users can refine their query by exploring several semantic refinements that provide semantically related information of the currently searched entity (or relation). The SSE uses a Knowledge Base to store semantic knowledge that is extracted from the semantic analysis of Web documents. Methods to construct, maintain and evolve the Knowledge Base are also described. | 02-11-2016 |
20160041999 | QUERY ANALYZER - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for analyzing queries. One of the methods includes obtaining a plurality of queries submitted from a plurality of different client devices; determining a source geographic location for each of the plurality of queries based on information associated with a client device from which the query was submitted; determining a destination geographic location for each of the plurality of queries based on the respective first text portion of the query; determining a vertical market category for each of the plurality of queries; receiving a request to analyze queries according to a first vertical market category and at least one of a source geographic location or a destination geographic location; using one or more indexes to identify queries responsive to the request; and presenting data describing the queries responsive to the request. | 02-11-2016 |
20160055180 | NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND METHOD - A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process that includes storing keywords related to a template image for every template image, acquiring a search result of information on the Internet that includes information of a location and a time that correspond to image capture location information and image capture time information included in photo image data, and selecting a stored template image with related keywords that are highly relevant to a keyword group included in the search result as a template image relevant to the photo image data. | 02-25-2016 |
20160063011 | LOCATION-BASED MEDIA SEARCHING AND SHARING - Various embodiments relating to searching, identifying, and sharing music being played at entities is disclosed. In one embodiment, audio samples are received from a client computing system, and one or more songs are identified as corresponding to the audio samples. For one or more identified songs, song metadata is sent to the client computing system, and a geolocation of the client computing system is identified based on the location data. Further, a list of one or more candidate entities is sent to the client computing system, wherein the one or more candidate entities are located within a selected distance from the geolocation of the client computing system. A confirmation that the one or more songs are being played at an entity selected from the plurality of candidate entities is received from the client computing system, and the one or more songs are associated with the entity in a database. | 03-03-2016 |
20160078046 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A CLOSEST MATCH SEARCH - A system to generate an index for a closest match search is described. The system receives a corpus of information that includes member information. The system parses the member information to generate signatures for each of the members and stores the signatures in the index. The signatures are unique to the members. Accordingly, the signatures signify the respective members. The system subsequently utilizes the index to identify input information that matches signatures in the index to identify a closest match of the input information to one or more members in the corpus information. | 03-17-2016 |
20160085780 | REFERENCED CONTENT INDEXING - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for indexing referenced content and/or for deep content searching. In an example, parent content (e.g., an instant message from a friend about a celebrity) may be evaluated to identify a reference (e.g., a URL) to referenced content hosted by a content source (e.g., a photo shared through a photo sharing service). The referenced content may be acquired from the content source, and may be evaluated to identify a search term that is descriptive of the referenced content (e.g., a name of the celebrity in the photo). The parent content and the referenced content may be indexed into a search index using the search term. In an example, responsive to a search query corresponding to the parent content and/or the search term, the parent content and/or the referenced content may be provided as search results. | 03-24-2016 |
20160098432 | INTEGRATED SEARCH FOR SHARED STORAGE USING INDEX THROTTLING TO MAINTAIN QUALITY OF SERVICE - A method of searching shared files stored on a shared storage includes providing a search functionality in the shared storage having a set of search indexes to perform a search based on a search term; providing an event stream of update events associated with the shared files in the shared storage; processing the event stream to generate a processed event stream; and responding to update events in the processed event stream by indexing files referenced in the update events in the processed event stream where the indexing is performed to maintain a predetermined level of quality of service at the shared storage. | 04-07-2016 |
20160103861 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING A PERFORMANCE INDEX OF WEBSITES - A method for establishing at least one quality index of a website ( | 04-14-2016 |
20160110454 | COMPUTING SYSTEM WITH DYNAMIC WEB PAGE FEATURE - An example method involves accessing web-traffic data associated with a web page hosted by a first computing-device, wherein the web page comprises meta-tag data; using the accessed web-traffic data to determine that the first computing-device received a threshold amount of requests that (i) were for the web page and (ii) originated from a geographical region; responsive to the determining, modifying the meta-tag data based on the geographical region; and transmitting the modified meta-tag data to a second computing-device, wherein the second computing-device is configured for (i) receiving the transmitted modified meta-tag data, (ii) receiving a request for a list of search results based on a set of search terms, (iii) responsive to receiving the request, using the set of search terms and the modified meta-tag data to perform a web search, thereby generating a list of search results, and (iv) transmitting the list of search results to a third computing-device. | 04-21-2016 |
20160117408 | INDEXING APPLICATION PAGES OF NATIVE APPLICATIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for indexing application pages of native applications that operate independent of a browser application on a user device. In one aspect, a method includes instantiating a virtual machine emulating an operating system of a user device; instantiating, within the virtual machine, a native application that generates application pages for display on a user device within the native application; accessing, within the virtual machine, application pages of the native application, and for each of the application pages: generating application page data describing content of the application page, the content described by the application page data including text that a user device displays on the application page when the user device displays the application page; and indexing the application page data for the native application in an index that is searchable by a search engine. | 04-28-2016 |
20160147879 | Fuzzy Search and Highlighting of Existing Data Visualization - A user may provide input to search an existing visualization (e.g., bar chart, graph) of a dataset returned in response to database querying. A highlighted visualization may then provide additional insight into relationships within the dataset. The highlighting may comprise changes to the appearance (e.g., size, color, background) of visualization elements. The search and highlighting may be executed by a functional module in an application layer of a local client in communication with database on a remote server. A search engine of the functional module may perform searching of dimension names, dimension values, and measure names within the dataset, identifying particular elements of the data set that are relevant to a search term (e.g., “q1”). Based upon recognition of relevant dataset data, a visualization engine may highlight particular elements of the visualization (e.g., changing an appearance of vertical bars showing first quarter revenue relative to vertical bars for other quarters). | 05-26-2016 |
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