Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090043748 | ESTIMATING THE DATE RELEVANCE OF A QUERY FROM QUERY LOGS - Techniques are provided maintaining data that indicates for a plurality of query terms whether the plurality of query terms are date-qualified query terms. A query is received, and in response to receiving the query, the query is inspected to determine that the query contains a particular date-qualified query term. Then it is determined that the particular date-qualified query term has been associated with a plurality of dates, and it is determined which of the plurality of dates with which to associate the date-qualified query term for the query, based at least in part on the frequency with which each particular date of the plurality of dates has been associated with the particular date-qualified query term. | 02-12-2009 |
20090049032 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTENT QUERIES AND RESULTS - A search engine compares entered search terms to an index of terms signifying a specific or local intent. If an entered term matches term in the index, then the search engine identifies and outputs information corresponding to the specific or local intent. Terms to include in the index of terms can be identified by monitoring the searching behavior of a set of users. | 02-19-2009 |
20090144244 | Time based ordering of provided mobile content - A method, system, and apparatus are directed to providing information over a network. A search query may be received. If the search query includes at least one keyword matching a pattern associated with a specific search engine, a plurality of search results is retrieved from the specific search engine based on the keyword, and the plurality of search results is provided. A plurality of potential search or source engines may be determined based on a current time information. At least one of the potential search or source engines may be a personalized source engine. At least one plurality of results may be retrieved from at least one of the potential search or source engines. The result may be based on the search query. An aggregated result may be determined based on a time rule and/or the current time information. The aggregated result may comprise the plurality of results. | 06-04-2009 |
20090149199 | VIRTUAL BILLBOARD DISPLAY ON A MOBILE DEVICE - A method, system, and apparatus are directed to providing advertising information to a mobile device over a network. A request is received from the mobile device. The request may comprise a query, geo-location information, and/or a user preference. If the request comprises the query, a search result is generated based on a search for the received query and/or the received geo-location information. At least one virtual billboard is determined, wherein the at least one virtual billboard is in proximity with a first geo-location identified by the received geo-location information and/or a second geo-location associated with the search result. The virtual billboard may also be based on a type of the virtual billboard, a time, a user preference (criterion), and/or a keyword included in the query. The virtual billboard is provided to the mobile device. An advertising usage is recorded for the provided virtual billboard. | 06-11-2009 |
20090327263 | BACKGROUND CONTEXTUAL CONVERSATIONAL SEARCH - A method of generating search queries based on digitized audio from conversations, including: providing a database having a global hot-list of universal popular keywords or phrases and a personalized entity list comprising keywords and phrases used with a frequency above a determined threshold value in conversations involving a user; monitoring a conversation between at least two people, including the user; identifying words or phrases in digitized audio of the monitored conversation through speech recognition; comparing the identified words or phrases to the keywords and phrases in the database to find any matches; generating a search string, without the user requesting a search, based on words or phrases found to match the keyword or phrases stored in the database; submitting the search string to a search engine as a search query; and serving a set of search results returned by the search engine to a display device of the user. | 12-31-2009 |
20100022221 | REAL-TIME INVENTORY TRACKING VIA MOBILE DEVICE - A computer-implemented method is disclosed for real-time inventory tracking with a mobile device, including: receiving a communication for a stationary inventory item via a cellular or wireless network from a tracking server that is coupled with the cellular or wireless network; and tracking the stationary inventory item on a registered consumer mobile device in real-time via the cellular or wireless network, wherein tracking comprises: receiving an updated status regarding a quantity and a location related to the stationary inventory item; and displaying the updated status on a screen of the mobile device in real time. | 01-28-2010 |
20100058440 | INTERACTION WITH DESKTOP AND ONLINE CORPUS - A method is disclosed that includes gaining authenticated access to at least one of a restricted network device and a restricted online webpage with an authenticator integrated with a content crawler, wherein the authenticator is configured to obtain authentication data from a user for access to the at least one of the restricted network device and the restricted online webpage; indexing personal content of the at least one of the restricted network device and the restricted online webpage in a database; and enabling the user to search the indexed database based on a search query. | 03-04-2010 |
20100082434 | PERSONALIZED SEARCH RESULTS TO MULTIPLE PEOPLE - A method is disclosed for personalizing search results for delivery to multiple recipients, including receiving a search query by a search engine from a user on behalf of a group of users, wherein the group of users communicate through a plurality of communication devices at a plurality of locations; conducting a search of a database by the search engine to locate any data relevant to one or more terms of the search query; generating, by the search engine, a set of search results returned from the database according to at least one factor related to one or more of the group of users; and substantially simultaneously sending the set of search results to the plurality of communications devices of the group of users. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082436 | SEARCH RESULTS FOR LOCAL VERSUS TRAVELER - A method is disclosed for serving user queries adaptively based on whether the query is submitted by a local user or a traveler, including receiving by a search engine a query from a communication device, the query including one or more search terms; detecting a type of keyword term by a context detector of the search engine that indicates a geographic context of the query; determining whether a user of the communication device is the local user or the traveler based on the geographic context; and delivering geographically-targeted search results by the search engine to the communication device based on determining that the user is either the traveler or the local user. | 04-01-2010 |
20100083163 | Methods and Systems for Optimizing Webpage Content Based on a Screen Orientation of a Device - Systems and methods for optimizing webpage content based on a screen orientation of a device are disclosed. Generally, a plurality of content chunks comprising a webpage to be displayed on a device is identified. An indication of a screen orientation of the device is received and webpage content to be displayed on the device is modified based at least in part on the screen orientation of the device, the identified plurality of content chunks, and a focus priority associated with each content chunk of the plurality of content chunks. | 04-01-2010 |
20110131282 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY BUILDING UP TOPIC-SPECIFIC MESSAGING IDENTITIES - A method for automating interaction with a messaging system receives a first message from the messaging system, associates the first message with a topic, assigns the first message to an identity associated with the topic, maps content to the first message, creates a second message based on the content, and sends, via the identity, the second message to the messaging system. The first message may be screened for quality and assigned a quality score, and if the quality score does not exceed a predetermined threshold, then the second message will not be sent to the messaging system. | 06-02-2011 |
20120150868 | TIME BASED ORDERING OF PROVIDED MOBILE CONTENT - A method, system, and apparatus are directed to providing information over a network. A search query may be received. If the search query includes at least one keyword matching a pattern associated with a specific search engine, a plurality of search results is retrieved from the specific search engine based on the keyword, and the plurality of search results is provided. A plurality of potential search or source engines may be determined based on a current time information. At least one of the potential search or source engines may be a personalized source engine. At least one plurality of results may be retrieved from at least one of the potential search or source engines. The result may be based on the search query. An aggregated result may be determined based on a time rule and/or the current time information. The aggregated result may comprise the plurality of results. | 06-14-2012 |
20120158715 | ON-LINE SOCIAL SEARCH - Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented using one or more computing devices to facilitate or otherwise support one or more processes or operations in connection with performing information searches, such as, for example, domain-specific on-line searches using social survey-type queries. | 06-21-2012 |
20130097184 | AUTOMATIC UPDATING OF TRUST NETWORKS IN RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS - Trust networks in a recommender system are automatically updated in response to user feedback on recommendations provided by the trust network. In response to a user request, a set of referrals is generated, with some of the referrals being recommended based on judgment data received from members of the trust network. If the user evaluates the recommended referral, a trust parameter for at least one of the trust network members is updated based on the evaluation. | 04-18-2013 |
20130124646 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING, COLLECTING, ENRICHING AND RANKING OF EMAIL OBJECTS - Enriching emails includes: receiving a user's email messages; performing a semantic analysis on the email message body; deriving a plurality of objects of interest; associating search-based content with the objects of interest; ranking the objects of interest; and outputting the ranked objects with the search-based content into a current email message of the user. | 05-16-2013 |
20130226918 | TRUST PROPAGATION THROUGH BOTH EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT SOCIAL NETWORKS - The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for trust propagation. The method according to one embodiment comprises calculating a first feature vector for a first user, calculating a second feature for a second user and comparing the first feature vector with the second feature vector to calculate a similarity value. A determination is made as to whether the similarity value falls within a threshold. If the similarity value falls within the threshold, a relationship is recorded between the first user and the second user in a first user profile and a second user profile. | 08-29-2013 |
20130275405 | ON-LINE SOCIAL SEARCH - Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented using one or more computing devices to facilitate or otherwise support one or more processes or operations in connection with performing information searches, such as, for example, domain-specific on-line searches using social survey-type queries. | 10-17-2013 |
20140108447 | DISPLAY OF LOCATION-RELATED PROMOTIONAL MESSAGE WITH SEARCH QUERY RESULTS - Briefly, embodiments of methods or systems for display of a location-related promotional message with search query results are disclosed. | 04-17-2014 |