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20090265337 | TRAIL-BASED EXPLORATION OF A REPOSITORY OF DOCUMENTS - Techniques that support trail-based exploration by a user of a repository of documents are described herein. In one embodiment, trail definition data that specifies a trail is received. The trail includes an ordered series of waypoints including a trailhead, intermediate waypoints, and one or more trailends. In some embodiments, deadends may also be defined in the trial. A particular waypoint in the ordered series of waypoints is established as a current waypoint. Search terms can be received from a user to cause a search to be performed. It is then determined whether the search satisfies matching criteria associated with a waypoint that immediately follows the current waypoint in the ordered series of waypoints. If so, the user advances to the next waypoint. Otherwise, the user remains at the current waypoint. Finally, if a trailend is reached, then an action such as rewarding the user in some way may be performed. | 10-22-2009 |
20090265347 | TRAIL-BASED EXPLORATION OF A REPOSITORY OF DOCUMENTS - Techniques that support trail-based exploration by a user of a repository of documents are described herein. In one embodiment, trail definition data that specifies a trail is received. The trail includes an ordered series of waypoints including a trailhead, intermediate waypoints, and one or more trailends. In some embodiments, deadends may also be defined in the trial. A particular waypoint in the ordered series of waypoints is established as a current waypoint. Search terms can be received from a user to cause a search to be performed. It is then determined whether the search satisfies matching criteria associated with a waypoint that immediately follows the current waypoint in the ordered series of waypoints. If so, the user advances to the next waypoint. Otherwise, the user remains at the current waypoint. Finally, if a trailend is reached, then an action such as rewarding the user in some way may be performed. | 10-22-2009 |
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20080208893 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE CONTENT PROCESSING AND CLASSIFICATION IN A HIGH-AVAILABILITY ENVIRONMENT - The embodiments of the invention provide a systems, methods, etc. for adaptive content processing and classification in a high-availability environment. More specifically, a system is provided having a plurality of processing engines and at least one server that classifies data objects on the computer system. The classification includes analyzing the data objects for the presence of a type of content. This can include assigning a score corresponding to the amount of the type of content in each of the data objects. Moreover, the server can remove a data object from the computer system based on the results of the analyzing. The results of the analyzing are stored and the computer system is updated with feedback information. This can include allowing a user to review the results of the analyzing and aggregating reviews of the user into the feedback information. | 08-28-2008 |
20080228718 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-DIMENSIONAL AGGREGATION OVER LARGE TEXT CORPORA - Systems and methods for multidimensional aggregation. Exemplary embodiments include a method for retrieving data from an inverted list index within a computer system, wherein the index comprises annotated postings, the method including receiving a query in a system, converting the query into a query language, scanning at least one list of postings for data from the query, aggregating the data in the list, thereby resulting in an aggregated list, wherein the aggregating includes recording the occurrence of unique values from the list, mapping the values using a user-provided definition to an alternate value, grouping the values by a user-provided mapping of values to groups, recording and mutating data associated with the unique value in the list, relating the recorded data values with other values in the index and returning the requested data from the aggregated list in a return format. | 09-18-2008 |
20080228743 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-DIMENSIONAL AGGREGATION OVER LARGE TEXT CORPORA - Systems and methods for multi-dimensional aggregation. Exemplary embodiments include a method for retrieving data from an inverted list index within a computer system, wherein the index comprises annotated postings, the method including receiving a query in a system, converting the query into a query language, scanning at least one list of postings for data from the query, aggregating the data in the list, thereby resulting in an aggregated list, wherein the aggregating includes recording the occurrence of unique values from the list, mapping the values using a user-provided definition to an alternate value, grouping the values by a user-provided mapping of values to groups, recording and mutating data associated with the unique value in the list, relating the recorded data values with other values in the index and returning the requested data from the aggregated list in a return format. | 09-18-2008 |
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20080215585 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATION, REPRESENTATION, AND DELIVERY OF DOCUMENT CORPUS ENTITY CO-OCCURRENCE INFORMATION - To respond to queries that relate to co-occurring entities on the Web, a compact sparse matrix representing entity co-occurrences is generated and then accessed to satisfy queries. The sparse matrix has groups of sub-rows, with each group corresponding to an entity in a document corpus. The groups are sorted from most occurring entity to least occurring entity. Each sub-row within a group corresponds to an entity that co-occurs in the document corpus, within a co-occurrence criterion, with the entity represented by the group, and to facilitate query response the sub-rows within a group are sorted from most occurring co-occurrence to least occurring co-occurrence. | 09-04-2008 |
20080222146 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATION, REPRESENTATION, AND DELIVERY OF DOCUMENT CORPUS ENTITY CO-OCCURRENCE INFORMATION - To respond to queries that relate to co-occurring entities on the Web, a compact sparse matrix representing entity co-occurrences is generated and then accessed to satisfy queries. The sparse matrix has groups of sub-rows, with each group corresponding to an entity in a document corpus. The groups are sorted from most occurring entity to least occurring entity. Each sub-row within a group corresponds to an entity that co-occurs in the document corpus, within a co-occurrence criterion, with the entity represented by the group, and to facilitate query response the sub-rows within a group are sorted from most occurring co-occurrence to least occurring co-occurrence. | 09-11-2008 |
20080256046 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRIORITIZING WEBSITES DURING A WEBCRAWLING PROCESS - A system and method for prioritizing a fetch order of web pages. The method comprises extracting by a web crawler a set of candidate web pages to be crawled. Each web page in the set of candidate web pages is associated with a website in a computer network. A determination is made to determine if a first website score for the website is in a website score database. The first website score is associated with web pages in the set of candidate web pages if the first website score exists in the website score database. The set of candidate web pages is prioritized with respect to an associated website score for each web page in the candidate set of web pages. Content is retrieved from the set of candidate web. Hyperlinks are extracted from the content. The hyperlinks are stored in a memory unit. | 10-16-2008 |
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20110314389 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATION OF AN APPLICATION RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT INTO A USER COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods for creating application runtime environments or application environments that can be downloaded and integrated into the computing environment of a computing device are disclosed. One embodiment of the invention includes a computing device on which an operating system is installed that creates a computing environment, an Application Platform application, where the Application Platform application is at least partially natively implemented and creates an application runtime environment when executed by the computing device, and a cross-platform application, where the cross-platform application is configured to be executed within the application runtime environment and is not natively executable by the computing device. In addition, the Application Platform application is configured to integrate the cross-platform application into the computing environment of the computing device by providing at least one launch point for the cross-platform application within the computing environment. | 12-22-2011 |
20120324338 | System and Methods for Integration of an Application Runtime Environment Into a User Computing Environment - Systems and methods for creating application runtime environments or application environments that can be downloaded and integrated into the computing environment of a computing device are disclosed. One embodiment of the invention includes a computing device on which an operating system is installed that creates a computing environment, an Application Platform application, where the Application Platform application is at least partially natively implemented and creates an application runtime environment when executed by the computing device, and a cross-platform application, where the cross-platform application is configured to be executed within the application runtime environment and is not natively executable by the computing device. In addition, the Application Platform application is configured to integrate the cross-platform application into the computing environment of the computing device by providing at least one launch point for the cross-platform application within the computing environment. | 12-20-2012 |
20130339946 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATION OF AN APPLICATION RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT INTO A USER COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods for creating application runtime environments or application environments that can be downloaded and integrated into the computing environment of a computing device are disclosed. One embodiment of the invention includes a computing device on which an operating system is installed that creates a computing environment, an Application Platform application, where the Application Platform application is at least partially natively implemented and creates an application runtime environment when executed by the computing device, and a cross-platform application, where the cross-platform application is configured to be executed within the application runtime environment and is not natively executable by the computing device. In addition, the Application Platform application is configured to integrate the cross-platform application into the computing environment of the computing device by providing at least one launch point for the cross-platform application within the computing environment. | 12-19-2013 |
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20100228594 | ADVERTISING AND PROMOTIONAL SYSTEM - Advertising networks are described that enable the provision of offers to a user device in response to activation of an installation package. One embodiment of the invention includes a user device connected to a network, an advertising server system connected to the network, where the advertising server system stores information concerning a plurality of offers, and a partner server connected to the network. In addition, the user device is configured to execute an installation package to perform a predetermined operation, where the execution of the installation package triggers execution of a client application configured to collect information concerning the user device and to forward the collected information to the advertising server system as the installation package performs the predetermined operation, the advertising server system is configured to select at least one of the plurality of offers based upon the collected information and to forward information concerning the at least one selected offer to the client application, the client application is configured to display via the user device information concerning the at least one selected offer as the installation package performs the predetermined operation, and the client application is configured to contact the partner server to obtain fulfillment of an accepted offer. | 09-09-2010 |
20150051972 | ADVERTISING AND PROMOTIONAL SYSTEM - Advertising networks in accordance with embodiments of the invention present offers to users that execute an installation package. One embodiment of the invention a computing device, including a processor and a memory connected to the processor and configured to store install software comprising a client application, wherein the install software configures the processor to execute the client application to obtain target information including data descriptive of the computing device, transmit a request for a set of target offers, where the request includes the target information, obtain a list of target offers identifying at least one installation package that modifies the computing device, and display the list of target offers. | 02-19-2015 |