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| 20100082593 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RANKING SEARCH RESULTS USING SOCIAL INFORMATION - An improved system and method for ranking search results using social information is provided. A social information ranking engine may be provided to rerank a list of URLs of web pages in search results from a search engine using social information. To do so, the search query may be applied to a social information domain and a second list of references to web pages may be obtained as search results. A dimensional vector of users with the plurality of terms may be constructed using search results from social information domain, and a similarity measure may be computed between the references to web pages obtained from search results by the search engine and the references to web pages obtained from search results by the social information ranking engine. The score from the similarity measure may then be used to rerank the list of references to web pages. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100082594 | BUILDING A TOPIC BASED WEBPAGE BASED ON ALGORITHMIC AND COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS - Methods and system for generating a topic page for a search query on a search webpage includes receiving a search query at the search engine on a server from a search webpage on a client. The search engine examines the query and categorizes the query along one or more dimensions. A plurality of modules having dynamic content and associated with the one or more categories is identified and a glue page is generated using the identified modules. The glue page is integrated into a topic page. The topic page is returned to the client where it is rendered at the search webpage in response to the search query. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100114854 | MAP-BASED WEBSITES SEARCHING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - A web searching method and a terminal for the web searching method, the web searching method including: extracting map information about a specific geographic area that is designated via a map displayed on a screen of the terminal; requesting a server to perform a web search related to the specific geographic area according to the map information; receiving a link information list from the server and displaying the link information list on the screen, wherein the link information list is about a plurality of web pages matched with the map information about the specific geographic area; and browsing a web page corresponding to link information selected from among the link information list. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100153357 | RANK-BASED ESTIMATE OF RELEVANCE VALUES - A method includes submitting a query to multiple search engines. The method also includes receiving a ranked list of search results from each search engine based on the query. The method includes determining a search engine weighting value for each search engine, where each search engine weighting value indicates a degree of relevance of a category of specialization of a particular search engine to a category of the query. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100161585 | ASYMMETRIC CLUSTER FILESYSTEM - Provided is a data processing method in an asymmetric cluster filesystem. Each data server pre-allocates a free data block and transmits relevant information to a metadata server. The metadata server allocates a free data block and generates metadata by using free data block information, which is received beforehand and managed, upon a user's request of data generation. Then, the data server records the data on the free data block indicated in the metadata. Accordingly, network cost and operation amount of a server decrease and the load can be fairly distributed. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161586 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MULTI-PAGE DISPLAY AND INTERACTION OF ANY INTERNET SEARCH ENGINE DATA ON AN INTERNET BROWSER - The present invention describes a system and method of displaying search engine results and comprises a method of Internet browser add-ons or a web-based program where the multi-page of the Internet search engine data is displayed partially on one window screen in multi-columns format, each column represents one search engine page of data. The invention is particularly, but not exclusively, useful as a system and methods with novel aspect to develop the Internet browser view more user friendly to the users and includes further a Download module to user computer and an Install/Remove module of the add-on software module. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100169298 | Method And An Apparatus For Information Collection - The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for collecting information. The technical solution of the invention enables the search engine database to collect dynamic web page access information by sending web page access information to it. As the collected information shows statistics about actual web page access information usage, it is an important reference for the search engine to sequence web pages. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100174699 | Resident Event Notification System and Display Device - The Resident Event Notification System and Display Device is a combination of Computer Hardware and Software which will allow consumers the ability to automatically load photographs, music or video over the internet to display device. The display device is a display device between 8″ to 15″ with touch screen capability. The device has an application running which will synchronize with a web portal, downloading any updated content, and uploading synchronizing time and any event acknowledgements. Events, which are scheduled notifications, are displayed on the device at a scheduled time. Residents may acknowledge the event via touching the screen. This acknowledgement is recorded and updated on the web portal. If the event is not acknowledged, it is cleared within 15 minutes. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100179949 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN INTERNET BROWSER ADD-ON PROVIDNG SIMULTANEOUS MULTIPLE INTERACTIVE WEBSITES ON ONE INTERNET BROWSER WINDOW - The present invention describes a system and method of displaying website pages and comprises a method of Internet browser add-ons or a web-based program where the multi-pages of an Internet website are displayed partially on one window screen in multi-columns format, each column represents one website page of data. The invention is particularly, but not exclusively, useful as a system and methods with novel aspect to develop the Internet browser view more user friendly to the users and includes further a Download module to user computer and an Install/Remove module of the add-on software module. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100185600 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATION SEARCH OF WEB SITE - Disclosed is a web-site integration search method capable of consecutively searching a list of pre-registered search channels using a first keyword input by the user, even without inputting the first keyword in target search engines to be searched one by one. The method includes the steps of: inputting a first keyword in a keyword input window, and selecting one of multiple set search engines or all the set search engines; performing morpheme analysis of the input first keyword; generating a second keyword reconstructed through the morpheme analysis; adding an automatic execution instruction which sets the second keyword to be automatically input in an input window of the selected search engine; and receiving the second keyword, to which the automatic execution instruction has been added, transmitting the second keyword including the automatic execution instruction to a selected search engine through at least one output browser, and displaying searched information which is detected through the transmission. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100211559 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXPOSING BOTH PORTAL AND WEB CONTENT WITHIN A SINGLE SEARCH COLLECTION - A portal having one or more associated data sources is defined, the portal including one or more portlets for displaying information associated with the one or more associated data sources. An index of the one or more associated data sources is generated. A search query is transmitted to a search engine. The index is searched for data associated with the search query. A result set is received based, at least in part, upon the index and the data associated with the search query. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100228716 | PROTOCOL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate an address to be provided to a database, a plurality of search units, and a processing unit configured to perform a network protocol processing based on a search result, wherein the search units, including an input unit configured to input a search key, a comparison unit configured to compare data output from the database and the search key input, a setting unit configured to set a search start address and a search end address, and a monitoring unit configured to monitor matching of the generated address and the search end address. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100235342 | TAGGING SYSTEM USING INTERNET SEARCH ENGINE - A method of acquiring tags using web search includes receiving a search query in a search engine, processing the search query and returning a list of candidate resources corresponding to the search query, determining a candidate resource out of the list of candidate resources, extracting tags from the search query, and tagging the candidate resource with the extracted tags. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100274777 | Method and System for Processing a Variable Click Domain Display - Methods and systems for displaying at least one web site or promotion to a user (consumer) responsive to the user's query, on the user's browser, provide a display, that is for example, bifurcated, for the selected results web sites. A first, and typically larger portion of the display, takes up the balance of the display area, and is reserved for review and browsing of an operable web site, corresponding to the web site or promotion either initially displayed or most recently selected in the navigation area (navigation) of the computer screen, monitor or other display. A second portion of the display shows another portion of the navigation area (navigation) permitting the consumer to browse additional web sites or promotional options selected by the system server and/or computer. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100274778 | RANKING DOCUMENTS - A plurality of documents are ranked. The documents are returned as the result of a query computed for each search engine of a plurality of search engines. Each document of the plurality of documents is associated with a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The plurality of documents includes at least one document returned as a result of the query from each of the search engines. For each URL associated with a document from the plurality of documents, a frequency of the URLs is determined. Ranking the plurality of documents includes ranking them based on one or more factors, which are based on the frequency determined for each URL associated with the plurality of documents. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100287151 | Method and apparatus for rating URLs - A method of providing rating information in respect of Uniform Resource Identifiers to a client terminal. The method includes identifying a Uniform Resource Identifier at the client terminal, sending a first query to a rating server over an IP network, the query including as a query string a first component of the identified Uniform Resource Identifier or a derivative of that first component, and receiving the first query at the rating server and determining whether or not a rating exists for the query string. A response is sent by the server to the client terminal, the response including a determined rating, or an indication that no rating exists. The response is received at the client terminal and, if a rating included in the response so indicates or if the response otherwise so indicates, then a further query is sent to the rating server, the further query including as a query string said first component and a second component of the identified Uniform Resource Identifier, or a derivative of the first and second components. The steps of receiving the first query at the rating server, sending a response, and receiving the response at the client terminal, are repeated one or more times as required, adding for each iteration a further component to the query string. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100287152 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR WEB CRAWLING - In a web crawler, a URL selection module selects URLs for pages to be downloaded. The URL selection module accesses an interaction data store that stores interaction data for web pages, including interaction data that indicates human interactions with the pages. To reduce the effects of link farms, the URL selection module filters the URLs to select only those URLs that have human interaction histories and provides the selected URLs to a download module for web page downloading. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100287153 | IDENTIFYING PATTERNS OF SIGNIFICANCE IN NUMERIC ARRAYS OF DATA - Disclosed is a computer method and system for identifying significance of patterns across a plurality of data patterns, which involves identifying pattern types of the plurality of data patterns, determining a relative pattern significance factor to compare the pattern types. Determining the relative pattern significance factor further involves calculating a percentage change of an identified outlier from a median for a outlier pattern, calculating a value of a step change as a percentage of a last value of a step preceding the step change for a step change pattern and calculating a percentage change from a start value on the fitted curve to an end value on the fitted curve for a trend pattern. A ranked list of the pattern types are returned based on their corresponding relative pattern significant factors. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100306184 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING WEBPAGE DATA - A method and device for processing webpage data has the following steps: checking whether or not the webpage data included in the response message to be sent by a website to a search engine includes a particular character; and shielding the particular character included in the webpage data when the result of the checking is affirmative. By using the method and device, it is possible to prevent hackers from carrying out unauthorized operations on websites by way of Google hacking. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100325101 | MARKETING ASSET EXCHANGE - A system for marketing asset searching includes a computer system having a processor and memory, a network configured to interface with external databases accessible through external searching tools, where the external databases contain assets, and a user interface configured to facilitate asset searching among the external databases. The user interface further includes a keyword inquiry module configured to receive a search criteria from a user, a filter module configured to provide a filtering options to the user, a search request module configured to provide a search request constructed from the search criteria to the external searching tools to initiate searching of the external databases, and a display output module configured to receive the results of the search request and present the results on a display. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100332464 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A search site on a network performs information search by a keyword. When a Web page is selected among those detected by the information search, the keyword, a text in the selected Web page and the Web page's address are interconnected and recorded as one search record in a recording device. And then, it is judged whether or not there exist in one or more then one document, any words that match any keywords included in the search records recorded in the recording device. If there exists a word that matches a keyword, the display data to display the document with just a part of the text as least and/or the Web page's address included in the same search record as the keyword, is created, and a job is executed using the display data. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110010356 | DIGITAL DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention relate to a software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) digital document management system (“DDMS”). The DDMS is located remotely from an office building or other place of business on a remote server. The server is connected to one or more databases for storing digital documents or information extracted from the digital documents. A user populates the DDMS by sending digital documents to the server using a computer, an email-enabled scanner, or the like. When a digital document is received at the server, the document is routed to a customer pending queue, information from the digital document is extracted, the digital document is stored in a directory, and the extracted information is stored in a relational database. The extracted information is supplemented or corrected as necessary using a web portal which allows a user to access the digital document and the extracted information. The digital document and the extracted information are then sent to a first destination such as an archive or mail-on-demand (e.g., a mail and print service). | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110029502 | ADAPTIVE ROUTING OF RESOURCE REQUESTS FOR MULTILE BACK-END SYSTEMS - A system receives a request from a client relating to an account associated with the client, and values associated with a set of parameters relating to the request. The system matches the values to a structure that includes cases of the set of parameters to determine one or more cases similar to the values associated with the set of parameters. The system accesses information for the account based on routing information corresponding to the determined one or more similar cases. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110055193 | Applying User-Generated Deployment Events to a Grouping of Deployable Portlets - A mechanism is provided for applying individual user-generated deployment events to a grouping of bookmarked deployable Web archive files. The mechanism allows a user of a bookmarking service for deployable Web archive files to group bookmarked Web archive files according to criteria, such as tag names, and to perform actions, such as a deploy action, to all members of the group in a single user-generated event. The mechanism allows a user to perform a search of portlets meeting specified criteria. The user may then select portlets from the result set for deployment as a group. The mechanism also allows a user of the bookmarking service to tag pre-configured portlet groupings, or portal tabs. Users may choose to deploy not just a tagged portlet, but an entire tab of portlets in a single deployment action. The mechanism may also allow a user to deploy a collection of portal tabs. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110087645 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A TRANSPARENT APPLICATION OF MULTIPLE QUERIES ACROSS MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES - According to a fourth aspect there is provided a system to receive a request to search for the data. The system performs a search of a logical table based on a single criterion to identify a plurality of rows in the logical table. The system generates a first plurality of tuples based on the plurality of rows to identify a first plurality of physical tables that are mapped to the logical table, the first plurality of tuples including a first and second tuple, the first tuple identifies a first server and a first physical table that is accessed via the first server, the second tuple identifies a second server and a second physical table that is accessed via the second server. Next, the system queries at least two data sources for the data to generate results that include the data. The at least two data sources are at least partially identified by utilizing the first plurality of tuples. Finally, the system communicates the data in response to the request to search for the data. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110113023 | SYSTEM METHOD AND SOFTWARE APPLICATION FOR IMPLEMENTING A GOOGLE LIKE SEARCH IN A SOFTWARE - The present invention provides a system, method, and software application that mimics the Google® search engine on the web. Because of copyright laws, it is illegal to copy web articles their content and place them in a software or database unless you have permission from the copyright owner. The invention is to implement a software product with a database that solely contains the articles metadata (such as title, category, hyperlink) and that uses the (hidden) hyperlinks to open the articles content in a separate web browser when the user double-clicks the article from the grid in the software. As a result, no copyright infringement is possible and the software and its database can be updated (automatically) with updated articles. There is also an (intelligent) search or filter possibility so users can easily search or filter through all the articles from within the software. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110137882 | Search Engine Device and Methods Thereof - A search engine is operable to receive keyword information and semantic information that gives meaning and context to the keyword information. The search engine searches a keyword database with the keyword information to determine a set of links to web pages. The search engine also searches a semantic database with the semantic information, and ranks the set of web links based on the search. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110137883 | COMPARATIVE WEB SEARCH SYSTEM - A system and method for a comparative web search engines, search result summarization, web snippet processing, comparison analysis, information visualization, meta-clustering, and quantitative evaluation of web snippet quality are disclosed. The present application extends the capabilities of web searching and informational retrieval by providing a succinct comparative summary of search results at either the object or thematic levels. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110161308 | EVALUATING PREFERENCES OF CONTENT ON A WEBPAGE - Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that facilitate evaluation of digital content preferences are provided. A user is presented with items of digital content and permitted to manipulate the arrangement of the digital content items in the context of a layout area. Based on the user's manipulation of the digital content items, a user preference regarding an arrangement of digital content, such as a location preference, a position preference, and/or a usage preference, is identified. In embodiments, such a user preference can be utilized to later display digital content to a user in accordance therewith. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110173174 | LINGUISTICALLY ENHANCED SEARCH ENGINE AND META-SEARCH ENGINE - A search enhancement system (whether linked through an API to a search engine or integral to a search engine) creates a series of different narrow searches through the selective use of synonyms, hyponyms for a narrower search, hypernyms for a broader search, and antonyms for a reverse search. Lexical analysis can also be used to create alternative narrow searches. This allows a user to explore different nuances of meaning in an original search phrase until the user finds what he or she wants, while keeping individual searches narrow, thus leading to more focused search results. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110184929 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SPI EXTENSIONS FOR CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A virtual content repository (VCR) is a logical representation of one or more individual content repositories. The VCR uses a common Application Programming Interface (API) and a Service Provider Interface (SPI) to provide a single access point to one or more individual content repositories. The API describes how applications can interface with program logic and functionality provided by the content management system and the SPI describes how a content repository can be integrated into the VCR. A SPI adapter can be interposed between the at least one non-compliant repository in the VCR and the SPI. The SPI adapter can map a request to the non-compliant repository and provide content received from the non-compliant repository to originators of the requests. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110213763 | WEB CONTENT MINING OF PAIR-BASED DATA - Described herein is technology for, among other things, mining pair-based data on the web. The technology involves an online pair-based data mining system as well as an offline SVM training system. By subjecting a pair-based input data to the systems, one may grow a pool of pair-based data which share characteristics of the pair-based input data in more efficient manner. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110218985 | LOCATION-AWARE BUSINESS DATA RETRIEVAL - There is provided a method that includes (a) sending to a geocoding service, an indicator of a location, where the geocoding service returns a bounding box that defines a geographic area, (b) sending to a search engine, a first query that includes the bounding box and a first parameter, where the search engine returns an identifier of a first business entity located within the geographic area and an indicator of an industry in which the first business entity is engaged, and (c) sending to the search engine, a second query that includes the bounding box and the indicator of the industry in which the first business entity is engaged, where the search engine returns coordinates of a second business entity located within the geographic area. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110231383 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USER INTERACTIVE SOCIAL METASEARCHING - A searching system may include a primary server with interfaces for communication with databases or with underlying search engines. The primary server may be adapted to receive a search query from a client under instructions from a user; and retrieve search results and transmit the results as a response to the client. The primary server may be adapted to store search data sets of relevant results for queries by users who are member of the set. The primary server may be adapted to select a search data set of which the user for the query is a member, and to use said search data set in providing the response to the query. The primary server may be adapted to download data concerning the selected search data set to the user. The primary server may be adapted to automatically update the search data set according to the results selected by the user. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110270819 | CONTEXT-AWARE QUERY CLASSIFICATION - Query classification techniques attempt to classify user search queries in order to better understand user search intent. Understanding a user's search intent allows search engines to provide relevant content tailored to the user's interest. Unfortunately, current classification techniques do not take into account contextual information. Accordingly, as provided herein, a target query may be classified based upon contextual information. In particular, features may be extracted from contextual information and/or other sources. For example, features may be extracted from the target query, related queries, and/or invoked search results of the related queries. In this way, the target query may be classified based upon other queries performed by the user and/or search results of the queries the user found interesting. In addition, a CRF model may be utilized in classifying the target query by providing generalized parameters learned from labeled query sessions. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110289067 | USER INTERFACE FOR CONTENT BROWSING AND SELECTION IN A SEARCH PORTAL OF A CONTENT SYSTEM - A computer-implemented system and method for providing a user interface for content browsing and selection in a content system. Embodiments include: gathering available content information related to particular content items from at least one source of a plurality of content sources via a data network; presenting, using a processor, a user interface including a search portal, the search portal being configured to receive a search query from a user platform; comparing the search query with the content information to identify matching content items; providing a digital representation of each of the matching content items; receiving a selection of one or more of the matching content items, the selection being in response to a user action performed on the digital representation corresponding to the one or more matching content items; and displaying an expanded dimension of information associated with the selected one or more matching content items in response to receiving the selection of the one or more matching content items, the expanded dimension of information including at least one user-selectable command option to obtain an additional level of detailed information related to the selected one or more matching content items. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110307466 | System and method for determining quality of cited objects in search results based on the influence of citing subjects - A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to examine and determine quality of objects cited by citations in a search result based on a citation graph that includes citing subjects, citations, and cited objects. First, influence scores of a plurality of subjects/sources that compose the citations of the objects in the search result are calculated. The quality of the objects cited by the subjects can then be determined by examining the influence scores for the subjects of the citations. Finally, the cited objects selected can be presented to a user or provided to a thirty party for further processing together with the relevant citations and citing subjects. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110313994 | CONTENT PERSONALIZATION BASED ON USER INFORMATION - A particular method of content personalization based on user information includes receiving data representing an information retrieval task. The data is received at a server from a computing device associated with a user. The information retrieval task is executed to generate result information. Personalization information associated with the user that is relevant to the information retrieval task is retrieved. The personalization information associated with the user includes information associated with at least one of a genotype of the user and a phenotype of the user. The method includes modifying the result information based on the retrieved personalization information to generate personalized result information. The personalized result information is transmitted to the computing device associated with the user | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110313995 | BROWSER BASED MULTILINGUAL FEDERATED SEARCH - Multilingual federated search of deep web and surface web data stores combines technologies for federated search, surface web searches, for access limited search, and for rapid translation from and to various human languages. A federated search engine accepts a search query and submits it to other search engines. The federated search engine then accepts the various search results, post processes them, and presents them to a user. The surface web is the collection of freely accessible web sites that typically get crawled and indexed by search engines. The deep web is the data that is out there on the internet but having barriers to access such as subscription or technology. Language is also a barrier to access. Multilingual federated search techniques can provide users with search results gleaned from a vast number of sources in a variety of languages. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20120005186 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING AND INTERACTIVE RANKING OF SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS - Systems and methods are disclosed for a search engine interface presented to a user in which a search query is input and run on a plurality of individual search engines. The system supports selection by the user of positive or relevant search results hits, and supports deletion or rejection of negative or irrelevant search results hits. The system allows the user to compile a list of personal best hits, and allows the user to collaborate on creating a multi-user overall best result or results list. Subsequent users have access to the collaborative efforts of the multi-users best results. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120016861 | REGISTRATION OF APPLICATIONS AND UNIFIED MEDIA SEARCH - An application programming interface (API) includes an interface implemented by a software program or firmware program which enables an application to interact with other software or with firmware. An API can facilitates interaction between different software programs. Registration of an application can be the notification, by an API which corresponds to a non-native application, to native applications and to a core search framework of a mobile communications device. A core search framework provides a mechanism which enables an application to register as a provider of searchable data. A media application provides a search API media subset which enables non-native applications to register and enables non-native applications to indicate media type categories for which non-native applications may be searched. Registered non-native applications are launched based upon the type of media utilized by a media application. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120023088 | Location-Based Searching - In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and programs for providing location-based information. A geographical location of a mobile computing device is received at a server system. A request for content is received at the server system and from the mobile computing device. A search area that corresponds to the geographical location is selected by the sever system. The search area is selected from among a collection of search areas that correspond to the geographical location. At least one of the search areas in the collection is geographically nested within at least one other of the search areas. A search result that is most-relevantly ranked for the selected search area is determined by the server system. Content that represents the determined search result is provided by the server system and for receipt by the mobile computing device. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120059813 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING THE INTERNET - Some embodiments relate to performing a search for content via the Internet, wherein user input specifying a search query is supplied to a mobile communications device, such as, for example, a smartphone. The mobile communications device separately issues the search query to a plurality of search engines and can receive the results from each search engine and display the results to the user. Thus, the user does not have to separately issue the query to each of the plurality of search engines. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120059814 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING A SEARCH ENGINE TO WHICH TO PROVIDE A SEARCH QUERY - Some embodiments relate to a method of performing a search for content on the Internet, in which a user may issue a search query, and the search engine or engines to which that query is provided may be determined dynamically based on any of a variety of factors. For example, in some embodiments, the search engine or engines to which the query is provided may be determined based on the content of the search query, this historical access patterns of the user that issued the query, or the historical access patterns of other users. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120089589 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DYNAMIC UPDATING WEB PORTALS - The web portal's contents management becomes complex and sometime tedious job. There are needs for an efficient and cost effective way to manage large volumes of the web contents for web portals. The posting and withdrawing operation of the present invention has provided a means for making the tasks of updating and managing web portal's contents become much easy and efficient due to the principle of the parallelism can be deployed. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120095984 | Universal Search Engine Interface and Application - Disclosed are methods, systems, apparatus and products, including a method that includes receiving, by at least one processor-based device, a search query provided via an interface, and submitting the search query to at least one of a plurality of search engines, each having a dedicated search engine interface, the dedicated search engine interface of the at least one of the plurality of search engines being hidden from view by the interface. The method also includes selecting a subset of search results returned by the at least one of the plurality of search engines, and determining a set of possible query variations based on the selected subset of search results, the set of possible query variations being used to determine one or more refined queries for resubmission to the at least one of the plurality of search engines. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120109926 | SCOPED DATABASE CONNECTIONS - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for scoping the context used to access a database partition. Embodiments of the invention enable data isolation using partitions in multi-tenant databases, while relieving client applications from dealing with the partitions. For example, a computer system that includes a distributed database system comprising a plurality of database partitions in a federation receives a context to use when performing database access operations within the distributed database system. The context identifies specified relevant portion of the federation. The computer system also receives a database access operation that is associated with the context. The computer system modifies the semantics of the database access operation in accordance with the associated context, to direct application of the database access operation to the specified relevant portion of the federation. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120117051 | MULTI-MODAL APPROACH TO SEARCH QUERY INPUT - Search queries containing multiple modes of query input are used to identify responsive results. The search queries can be composed of combinations of keyword or text input, image input, video input, audio input, or other modes of input. The multiple modes of query input can be present in an initial search request, or an initial request containing a single type of query input can be supplemented with a second type of input. In addition to providing responsive results, in some embodiments additional query refinements or suggestions can be made based on the content of the query or the initially responsive results. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120124025 | Method for Querying a Search Word Via SMS and Sending a Search Engine Results to Mobile Devices - The present invention relates to a method for sending the content about which information is desired to be obtained to a number as a short message (SMS) and sending the web address (URL) of the result page of a certain search engine defined on the system to the user via WAPpush or short message. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120143843 | SEARCHING SYSTEM HAVING A SERVER WHICH AUTOMATICALLY GENERATES SEARCH DATA SETS FOR SHARED SEARCHING - A system has a primary server storing search data sets (“staks”) and a linked social network server. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120191689 | Metasearch Engine for Ordering Items Returned In Travel Related Search Results Using Multiple Queries on At Least One Host Comprising a Plurality of Server Devices - Process and system for metasearching on the Internet performed by a metasearch engine, comprising: receiving an HTTP request from a client device for the metasearch engine to send a plurality of search queries to at least one host that comprises a plurality of server devices that provide access to information to be searched, the HTTP request associated with a plurality of travel related items that may be ordered comprising at least one airline ticket and at least one other type of travel related item; sending the plurality of search queries to the at least one host; receiving search results from the at least one host; incorporating the received search results into a response; communicating the response from the metasearch engine to the client device; receiving another HTTP request from the client device for placing an order for at least one of the plurality of travel related items; processing the order. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120239637 | System and method for determining quality of cited objects in search results based on the influence of citing subjects - A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to examine and determine quality of objects cited by citations in a search result based on a citation graph that includes citing subjects, citations, and cited objects. First, influence scores of a plurality of subjects/sources that compose the citations of the objects in the search result are calculated. The quality of the objects cited by the subjects can then be determined by examining the influence scores for the subjects of the citations. Finally, the cited objects selected can be presented to a user or provided to a thirty party for further processing together with the relevant citations and citing subjects. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120246136 | LIVE COMMUNICIATION ENABLED SEARCH ENGINE AND METHOD - A live communication-enabled search engine comprising: a user interface for receiving at least one query from the user and for the user to interact with the search engine; a query server for receiving the at least one query from a user; a corpus to which the query is applied and against which search results are provided to the user; and at least one communications module included in the search results, the communications module operatable by the user to communicate substantially live with a third party. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120290555 | Method, System and Apparatus of Hybrid Federated Search - A client device comprising a search module configured to receive a search instruction from a federated search server, query one or more search services based on the search instruction, receive a first search result that comprises one or more search results from one or more search services, send the first search result to the federated search server, and receive a second search result from the federated search server. Also disclosed is a federated search server comprising a search instruction generator configured to send a search instruction to a client device, and a search result consolidator configured to receive a first search result from the client device, wherein the first search result comprises one or more search results and is obtained by the client device from one or more search services. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120303605 | Metasearch Engine for Ordering At Least One Item Returned In Search Results Using At Least One Query on Multiple Unique Hosts and for Displaying Associated Advertising - Process for metasearching on the Internet performed by a metasearch engine, comprising: receiving an HTTP request from a client device for the metasearch engine to send at least one search query to a plurality of unique hosts providing access to information to be searched, the HTTP request associated with at least one item that may be ordered from a plurality of items that may be ordered; sending the at least one search query to the plurality of unique hosts; receiving search results from the plurality of unique hosts; incorporating the received search results into a response; causing at least one advertisement associated with the at least one item that may be ordered to be displayed in the response; communicating the response from the metasearch engine to the client device; receiving another HTTP request from the client device for placing an order for the at least one item; processing the order. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20130018867 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INITIATING AN ACTIONAANM Regan; Marc W.AACI CambridgeAAST MAAACO USAAGP Regan; Marc W. Cambridge MA USAANM Sejnoha; VladimirAACI LexingtonAAST MAAACO USAAGP Sejnoha; Vladimir Lexington MA USAANM Evermann; GunnarAACI BostonAAST MAAACO USAAGP Evermann; Gunnar Boston MA USAANM Brown; Sean P.AACI San FranciscoAAST CAAACO USAAGP Brown; Sean P. San Francisco CA USAANM Laverty; Stephen W.AACI SomervilleAAST MAAACO USAAGP Laverty; Stephen W. Somerville MA USAANM Slater; Jeremy A.AACI GrotonAAST MAAACO USAAGP Slater; Jeremy A. Groton MA USAANM Watson; John R.AACI BostonAAST MAAACO USAAGP Watson; John R. Boston MA USAANM Lyons; Peter K.AACI ChelmsfordAAST MAAACO USAAGP Lyons; Peter K. Chelmsford MA USAANM LaSante; Ryan S.AACI LittletonAAST MAAACO USAAGP LaSante; Ryan S. Littleton MA US - Some embodiments relate to techniques for receiving a query from a device, the query comprising content; determining based at least in part on the content of the query that an application is to be launched on the device; and causing the device to launch the application using at least some information determined from the content of the query. Some embodiments relate to techniques for receiving a free-form query from a user; transferring a representation of the query to at least one computer; and receiving from the at least one computer at least one instruction to launch an application on the device. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130054557 | CALLER ID SURFING - The invention relates to the field of computer telephony integration, displaying and producing computer based documents seamlessly to users that relate to their telephone calls. The best mode is considered to be the use of the invention with social media, such as Facebook, where the mobile station ( | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130110808 | EVENT MEMORABILIA | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130117251 | CENTRAL SERVER, PROXY SERVER ARRANGEMENT FOR USE IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET - In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a proxy server comprising a computer program product is provided. According to a feature of the present invention, the computer program product is disposed on a computer readable media, and the product includes computer executable process steps operable to control a computer to: implement a proxy server operable to receive a rule protocol for modification of information received via the Internet, according to instructions caused by an entity that generates content related to the information, and to modify content by the proxy server, of information received via the Internet, according to the rule protocol. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130124495 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING THE INTERNET - Some embodiments relate to performing a search for content via the Internet, wherein user input specifying a search query is supplied to a mobile communications device, such as, for example, a smartphone. The mobile communications device separately issues the search query to a plurality of search engines and can receive the results from each search engine and display the results to the user. Thus, the user does not have to separately issue the query to each of the plurality of search engines. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130144857 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING THE INTERNET - Some embodiments relate to performing a search for content via the Internet, wherein user input specifying a search query is supplied to a mobile communications device, such as, for example, a smartphone. The mobile communications device separately issues the search query to a plurality of search engines and can receive the results from each search engine and display the results to the user. Thus, the user does not have to separately issue the query to each of the plurality of search engines. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130185276 | System for Search and Customized Information Updating of New Patents and Research, and Evaluation of New Research Projects' and Current Patents' Potential - The embodiments herein relate to intellectual property management and, more particularly, to a tool for searching and evaluating relative commercial potential of an invention. A user may select any of the services such as search, draft, innovation evaluation, commercial potential evaluation and so on. A search tool automatically generates a key string based on user inputs, searches in associated databases, organizes search results and delivers to the user. The keywords are improved or modified automatically by the search tool so as to improve subsequent search results. The keywords are improved by considering parameters such as field of search, search history of the user and so on. Further, new keywords are added to a dictionary so as to improve search strings each time. Drafting tools may be used to draft patent applications in specific format. Further, a research commercialization evaluator is used to analyze commercial potential of an invention. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130212083 | System & Method For Acquiring Online Data By Mimicking Human Behavior - A networked computer system includes a number of different data acquisition components for obtaining case data from an online web portal. The acquisition scanner can be configured in a number of different ways, including so as to imitate a human browser behavior, initiate separate instantiations for better case control, and maintain a download log to improve efficiency and performance. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130218863 | ASSOCIATIVE SEARCH ENGINE - This invention relates to an advertisement machine which provides advertisements to a user searching for desired information within a data network. The machine receives, from a user, a search request including a search argument corresponding to the desired information and searches, based upon the received search argument, a first database having data network related information to generate search results. It also correlates the received search argument to a particular advertisement in a second database having advertisement related information. The search results together with the particular advertisement are provided by the machine to the user. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130238586 | Metasearch Engine for Ordering At Least One Stock Returned In Search Results Using At Least One Query on Multiple Unique Hosts - Process for metasearching on the Internet performed by a metasearch engine, comprising: receiving an HTTP request from a client device for the metasearch engine to send at least one stock related search query to a plurality of unique hosts that provide access to stock related information; sending the at least one stock related search query to the plurality of unique hosts in response to the HTTP request; receiving search results from the plurality of unique hosts in response to the at least one stock related search query, the search results comprising data about at least one stock that may be ordered; incorporating the received search results into a response; communicating the response from the metasearch engine to the client device; receiving another HTTP request from the client device for placing an order for the at least one stock; processing the order. At least one updated response may also be included. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130311439 | Travel star online web portal application - The Travel Star Online Web Portal Application is a new concept through design and functionality that allows any mobile or PC user by I Phone, internet connection or any other mobile or PC device without any specific software to gain access to the portal and find existing applications for the user to access through the portal instead of searching the internet for one specific application. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130318063 | RELATED NOTES AND MULTI-LAYER SEARCH IN PERSONAL AND SHARED CONTENT - Displaying relevant data subsets of at least one data collection includes providing an input data subset, determining a plurality of partial relevance values for different characteristics of each of the plurality of data subsets of the at least one data collection with respect to the input data subset according to a term frequency of terms in the input data subset and term in each of the plurality of data subsets of the at least one data collection and according to an inverse document frequency of the terms, determining a relevance of each of the plurality of data subsets of the at least one data collection based on the partial relevance values of the different characteristics, and displaying at least a portion of the data subsets of the at least one data collection in order of relevance. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130325838 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING QUERY RESULTS - Method, system, and programs for presenting query results are disclosed. An input is received from a user related to a search query. A first set of query results and a second set of query results are then obtained based on the search query. A query intent is detected based on the search query. A first presentation style associated with the detected query intent is determined for the first set of query results. The first and second sets of query results are provided to the user. The first set of query results are presented in the first presentation style. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20140052707 | Concierge Service System and Method - A system and method is provided for conversion of information provided on public and/or private networks and managing that information by categories and offering services relating to that information; and particularly to a system and method for offering services related to maintaining an easy to use consumer site which searches golf courses and provides accurate tee time and other information related to golfing services and collects revenue based on those services. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140074814 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SWITCHING SEARCH ENGINE TO REPEAT SEARCH - A method is provided for switching search engine to repeat search are provided herein. The method includes generating a fixed search wrapper in a page or a window pre-determined by a browser, and the page or the window can be nested within the search wrapper. Further, the method includes displaying the search wrapper in a search results page of a first search engine when a user selects the first search engine listed in the browser to perform a search, and other search engine options can be displayed in the search wrapper. Still further, the method includes repeating the search using current search keywords through a second search engine selected by the user from the other search engine options, when the user requests to switch to the selected second search engine to repeat the search. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140089287 | INFORMATION SPACE EXPLORATION TOOL SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention involves a computer implemented system and method which assists querying against a data space using visualization. The method uses a computer to visualize a query of the data space by an initial search parameter. A first set of objects resulting from the initial search parameter is displayed, and the first set of objects on the display is graphically manipulated. A second set of objects is then created from a new query based on the initial search parameter and the graphic manipulation of the first set of objects. The user may link various objects, and assign a quantitative or qualitative value with each link. Information spaces may be created based on such manipulations and/or links, and portions of the information spaces may be extracted and/or inserted into or out of external information spaces. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140101126 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A SEARCH INTENT - A method and system for detecting a search intent of a user are provided. The method includes receiving an input search query from a user device; tokenizing the input search query to at least one token to create at least one tokenized query; processing the at least one tokenized query by a plurality of engines, wherein each engine of the plurality of engines configured to compute a certainty score that indicates a probability that the at least one tokenized query is mapped to at least one entity, wherein each engine of the plurality of engines is further configured to correspond to at least one entity indicating a topic of interest, thereby the plurality of engines are configured with different entities; receiving from a set of engines of the plurality of engines their respective entities and computed certainty scores, wherein the set of engines output computed certainty scores above a predefined threshold; and analyzing the received certainty scores and the respective entities to determine the search intent. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140188836 | METASEARCH ENGINE FOR RETURNING PRICE DATA RELATED TO AT LEAST ONE STOCK RETURNED IN SEARCH RESULTS, AT LEAST ONE RELATED NEWS ITEM LINK, AND AT LEAST ONE ADVERTISEMENT USING AT LEAST ONE QUERY ON MULTIPLE UNIQUE HOSTS - A process for metasearching on the Internet performed by a metasearch engine, comprising: receiving an HTTP request from a client device for the metasearch engine to send at least one stock related search query to a plurality of unique hosts that provide access to stock related information; sending the at least one stock related search query to the plurality of unique hosts in response to the HTTP request; receiving search results from the plurality of unique hosts, comprising price data related to at least one stock; incorporating the received search results comprising the price data related to the at least one stock into a response and causing at least one related news item link and at least one advertisement to be displayed in the response; communicating the response from the metasearch engine to the client device. Stock ordering and/or at least one updated response may also be included. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140258259 | LIBRARY RESOURCE AVAILABILITY IN SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS - Providing real time information on the availability of physical published works at a library available for check-out by patrons of the library. The method includes at a search engine service, receiving a search request from a user. The search request includes terms related to a published work. The method further includes receiving information from a library having a branch which patrons can physically visit and check out published works. The information includes information about the real time availability of the published work at the library. The method further includes identifying conventional Internet search results for the terms related to the published work. The method further includes providing to the user, in a common interface, conventional Internet search results together with the real time availability of the published work at the library branch where patrons can physically visit and check out the published work. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258260 | METHODS FOR ON LINE DATING - A dating search method includes extracting dating query information based on input from a user; pruning a list of dating sites based on which of the dating sites can provide a search result to a search request based on the query information to automatically generate a list of at least two dating sites to search; transmitting to at least two dating sites, a search request based on the query information, where each dating site is associated with a respective one of the pruned suppliers, and wherein each dating site performs a search and produces at least one search result; receiving, at least one search result from a first one of the dating sites and at least one search result from a second one of the dating sites; and incrementally transmitting the search results to the user, such that the search result from the first one of the dating sites which is received before the search result from the second one of the dating sites is presented to the user before the search result from the second one of the dating sites. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140280006 | MANAGING TEXT IN DOCUMENTS BASED ON A LOG OF RESEARCH CORRESPONDING TO THE TEXT - A method and apparatus for managing text is disclosed. A data processing system identifies a log of research and text in a document that matches the log of research. The data processing system determines whether a mismatch exists between a search result for the text in the document and the log of research. Responsive to determining the mismatch exists between the search result for the text and the log of research, the data processing system then modifies the text in the document based on the log of research. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280007 | COMPOSITE SEARCH RESULTS - Systems and methods of providing composite search results are disclosed. A search query may be received by a general purpose search engine of a first website from a user. At least one general purpose search result may be determined based on the search query using the general purpose search engine. The at least one general purpose search result may be based on a search of multiple websites. Item listing information of an item listed for sale on a second website may be determined based on the search query. The at least one general purpose search result and the item listing information may be caused to be displayed concurrently on the first website to the user. The user may be enabled to interact with the second website regarding the item by interacting with the item listing information displayed on the first website. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140324813 | Identifying Ranking Scores for Domains of Interest - A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving information indicative of a keyword; receiving information indicative of a domain of interest; identifying, by one or more computer systems, a predefined number of search results for the keyword, with the identified search results having increased ranking scores, relative to other ranking scores of other search results for the keyword; determining, by the or more computer systems, from the search results a ranking score of a search result that is for the keyword and that is associated with the domain of interest; and transmitting, to a computing device that sent the information indicative of the domain of interest, information indicative of the identified search results with the increased ranking scores and information indicative of the ranking of the search result that is associated with the domain of interest. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324814 | USER INTERFACES FOR SEARCH SYSTEMS USING IN-LINE CONTEXTUAL QUERIES - Systems and methods, including user interfaces, are provided for implementing searches using contextual information associated with a Web page (or other document) that a user is viewing when a query is entered. The page includes a contextual search interface that has an associated context vector representing content of the page. When the user submits a search query via the contextual search interface, the query and the context vector are both provided to the query processor and used in responding to the query. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140358882 | DEVICE CONTENT USED TO BIAS A SEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE - Biasing of search query inputs based on local content, device profile and/or activity information. In various embodiments, biasing operations are performed on a search input to a client device in order to improve search result relevancy. The biasing operations produce additional search query elements/context options based on locally-hosted content or other information that may not be readily available to a search engine. The local content may include, for example, images, text, audio/video files, documents, code, applications, social media, etc. One or more of additional search query elements/context options produced by the biasing operations are then utilized in a search query communicated to a search engine. In various alternate embodiments, device activity data extracted from a user's device (such as data generated by device sensors) may likewise be employed to refine search queries. In further embodiments, searching and biasing operations may be performed by an intermediary or proxy device. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140358883 | SEMANTICALLY ASSOCIATED TEXT INDEX AND THE POPULATION AND USE THEREOF - The construction of a semantically associated computer search database is disclosed. A text catalog containing the text particulars and contents of a plurality of electronic documents, a term association database which joins text search terms with their semantic meanings or definitions, and a content association database which contains records associating text search terms and their contextual definitions in respect of individual electronic documents are used to in conjunction provide a text index in which it is possible to search based upon the actual definitions or meanings of certain text or terms within the electronic documents, reducing or refining query search result sets. A method of operating a search engine with the index in question, as well as other e-commerce methods employing the index as a refining tool are also disclosed. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140358884 | SYSTEM SAND METHODS FOR SEARCHING ITEMS OF FASHION AND OTHER ITEMS OF CREATION - Systems and methods according to the invention make feature-based and visual search possible. They allow users to provide us a visual representation that we can apply against available items of creation and return items that are like the visual representation in terms of features and other parameters that user can specify. More generally, the invention relates to searching items using visual representations. In particular it provides visual features of an item of creation and methods for recognizing images in terms of those features, and converting the deduced knowledge in a form that is searchable against a database of items of creation. Thus, for example, one aspect of this invention provides for creation of the framework in which an item of creation can be represented visually. This framework can be of many types. A canvas, if we are to draw an image akin to what an artist draws. Or a touch-sensitive computer screen if we are the give the user the ability to pick and choose the image that wants to be inferred and so on. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20150066892 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SEARCH SERIVCES FOR A SOCIAL MEDIA ECOSYSTEM - A method and system for providing social media ecosystem searching services. Cascading searching is used to locate a desired person in a social media ecosystem. Plural related micro-levels are created in cascading searching lists. The plural related micro-levels include one or more cross-connections between the plural cascading merged lists including cross-connections between the search categories, search subcategories or search keywords in the search categories and search subcategories. The cascading searching provides micro-level searching for a desired person in the social media ecosystem at a level not available with other searching techniques. The system includes voice search requests and automatic translation of search requests and communication requests once a desired person is located into plural different languages. The social media search ecosystem cascading searching services are provided on a cloud communications network for mobile and non-mobile devices. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150081662 | CATEGORY CONSTRAINED QUERIES - A user may submit a search query to a search engine. The search engine may process the search query and generate a set of results. Each of the items searched by the search engine may have been pre-assigned to a category in a category tree. Previous interactions by other users with the items after similar queries may have been recorded. The search engine may identify categories based on the distribution of the interacted-with results among the categories. The category tree may be analyzed at different levels, based on the entropy observed at each level. A level with low entropy may be chosen, and categories at that level used to constrain the query. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150095303 | Knowledge Graph Generator Enabled by Diagonal Search - A method for building and managing a user-customizable knowledge base, the method comprising acquiring data related to a plurality of entities from a plurality of heterogeneous data sources based on a customized acquisition configuration, wherein the customized acquisition configuration specifies a distinct data wrapper for each of the data sources, extracting entity-related information from the data to form a number of graph databases, and integrating the graph databases by mapping relationships between the entities to create an entity-centric knowledge base. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150106353 | Data Federation Query Suggestion - Systems and methods are provided for data federation query suggestion. An example system includes a query constraint database including at least one query constraint and a query constraint resolving module that receives from a user a query to search a federated database using a federated database search engine and determines if the query satisfies at least one query constraints. The system further includes a query suggestion module that determines a query suggestion if the query does not satisfy at least one query constraints. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106354 | AUTOMATED COMPOSITION OF TOPICAL MEDIA - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for the automated composition of topical media. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for the automated composition of topical media is provided. The method includes specifying a topic of interest in a search engine interface of a search engine. The method also includes searching one or more media stores over a computer communications network for media files pertaining to the specified topic and retrieving one or more media files including portions corresponding to the specified topic. Finally, the method includes compositing the portions into a single media file and storing into fixed storage the single media file. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106355 | BROWSER BASED MULTILINGUAL FEDERATED SEARCH - Multilingual federated search of deep web and surface web data stores combines technologies for federated search, surface web searches, for access limited search, and for rapid translation from and to various human languages. A federated search engine accepts a search query and submits it to other search engines. The federated search engine then accepts the various search results, post processes them, and presents them to a user. The surface web is the collection of freely accessible web sites that typically get crawled and indexed by search engines. The deep web is the data that is out there on the internet but having barriers to access such as subscription or technology. Language is also a barrier to access. Multilingual federated search techniques can provide users with search results gleaned from a vast number of sources in a variety of languages. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150294004 | RICH RESULTS RELEVANT TO USER SEARCH QUERIES FOR BOOKS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for triggering rich results in response to publication queries. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a publication query. One or more publication search results are obtained. A rich result is triggered based on a score of the first-ranked publication result if it meets a threshold relative to other publication search results. The rich result is populated with additional metadata about the publication obtained from web resources and product resources from multiple corpora. The rich result is provided with the publication search results. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150317397 | Search Tool Using Multiple Different Search Engine Types Across Different Data Sets - Various embodiments provide for use of multiple different search engines. The individual search engines are configured to conduct searches in different ways across a search space that includes different types of data sets. In at least some embodiments, the type of search engine that is utilized is selected to due characteristics of the data set(s) that is (are) to be searched. In search spaces that include different types of data sets, combining and mixing different search engines to collectively search the search space can provide a desirably fast and robust user experience. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150331949 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CURRENT PREFERENCES OF A USER OF A USER DEVICE - A method and system for determining current preferences of a user of a user device respective of a metadata to a user device are provided. The method includes receiving at least one input multimedia content element from the user device; receiving at least one query; generating at least one signature respective of the at least one input multimedia content element; searching a storage unit for a multimedia content element matching the at least one input multimedia content element, wherein the matching is performed respective of the at least one generated signature and the at least one query; retrieving metadata associated with the matching multimedia content element, wherein the metadata implies the current preferences of the user; and displaying the metadata on a display of the user device. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150347543 | FEDERATED SEARCH - A method and apparatus that generates a plurality of ranked query results from a query over a plurality of separate search domains. In this embodiment, the device receives the query and determines a plurality of results across the plurality of separate search domains using the query. The device further characterizes the query. In addition, the device ranks the plurality of results based on a score calculated for each of the plurality of results determined by a corresponding search domain and the query characterization, where the query characterization indicates a query type. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150379148 | Automatically Modifying a Custom Search Engine for a Web Site Based on Administrator Input to Search Results of a Specific Search Query - Automatically creating and modifying a search engine for a website. User input may be received specifying an address of a website. A search engine may be automatically created for the website based on the user input. Webpages of the website may specify a plurality of tags specifying custom attributes of the webpages. During creation of the search engine, these custom attributes may be incorporated into the search engine index. Additional user input may be received customizing the search engine for various search engine contexts, e.g., based on the custom attributes of the webpages. Search engine results for the website may be based on various ranking functions, potentially including social impact of webpages of the website. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160034580 | INTERFACE FOR SIMULTANEOUS DISPLAY OF SELECTED ITEMS FROM SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS - According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system for processing a search of network sites allows a user to view search results in at least one viewing mode. Each viewing mode allows a user to view multiple result pages, or portions thereof, such that user can browse multiple search results with minimal web navigation. Moreover, the system may allow a user to cull or trim search results while moving between viewing modes with minimal web navigation. In some embodiments, information relating to or included on a result page may be shown as the user culls the search results and progresses through the various viewing modes. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160092575 | STABILITY MEASUREMENT FOR FEDERATION ENGINE - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing a stability measurement are provided. A computer-implemented method for measuring stability may include creating a destabilized data source for a data source, wherein errors are injected into the destabilized data source; sending test queries to the destabilized data source and the data source; and comparing results of the test queries in order to calculate a stability measurement. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160110460 | SEARCH EVALUATION SYSTEM - An electronic search evaluation system and method are disclosed. The system includes an application loadable onto a user device including a display and an input, and a server in communication with the user device. The application, when loaded onto the user device, permits the user device to communicate with the server to send to the server baseline and candidate search configurations, and a plurality of search terms, and to receive from the server, baseline and candidate search results for the search terms, and to cause display of the search results on the display. The server configured to receive the search configurations and search terms, identify the search results, compare the search results, and send the search results to the application. The search results sent to the application including a comparison marker to indicate whether the search results are matching. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160147888 | FEDERATION OPTIMIZATION USING ORDERED QUEUES - Methods, systems, and computer program products for optimization of query processing in a data federation system using priority queuing techniques are provided. Priority queuing techniques may include generating a query vector corresponding to a query, comparing the query vector to historical query vectors to determine similarity, determining an expected processing time for the query based on the determined similarity, and inserting the query into a priority ordered queue at a particular position based on the expected processing time. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160162580 | RELATED URLS FOR TASK-ORIENTED QUERY RESULTS - Methods, computer-storage media, and graphical user interfaces are provided for identifying and presenting rich related sites for task-oriented search queries. Upon receipt of a search query input by a user, one or more query logs are analyzed to determine if the search query is a related to a task being performed by the user. If the query is determined to be a task-oriented search query, search results are identified, as is one or more Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) related to a particular search result. The related URL is presented to the user in association with the particular search result. Additional controls, e.g., search tools that facilitate querying of those URLs determined to be relevant to a particular search result, may also be provided to aid the user in performing the task at hand. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160203221 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR AN APPLICATION AGNOSTIC USER SEARCH ENGINE | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160253380 | DATABASE QUERY OPTIMIZATION | 09-01-2016 |
