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| 20100076953 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING AND ORGANIZING MULTIPLE RESPONSES TO QUERIES USED TO CREATE A LEGACY PROFILE IN A MANNER THAT EXPANDS MEMORY RECALL - Focused sets of queries are presented to an interviewee. Responses to the queries are recorded and displayed to the interviewee in a manner that focuses the interviewee on the current query. Responses are sorted based on importance to the interviewee. Responses are confirmed by the interviewee to ensure completeness and accuracy. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100106704 | CROSS-LINGUAL QUERY CLASSIFICATION - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to cross-lingual query classification. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100114855 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC OBJECTS CLASSIFICATION - The present invention provides a method and system for automatic objects classification. The method comprises: acquiring a set of objects; classifying the objects based on query log to generate a first classification result; classifying the objects based on ontological information to generate a second classification result; and semantically fusing the first and second classification results to generate a final classification result. According to the present invention, compared with the prior arts, by semantically fusing the query log-based classification result and the ontology-based classification result, the accuracy and user-friendness of the object classification can be improved. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100114856 | INFORMATION SEARCH APPARATUS, INFORMATION SEARCH METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention provides a technique for determining a search range using metadata that is associated with information (file) of an image as well as determining granularity of the search range based on a unit of numerical information included in a query when a file is searched from a database. More particularly, an information search apparatus searches a plurality of files that include numerical information. As a query for determining the search range, a first numerical value and a keyword are input, a unit of the first numerical value is determined, the second numerical value of the unit that corresponds to the keyword is acquired, and a file included in the search range that is determined based on the first the second numerical values is searched from the plurality of files. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100121834 | Method and Apparatus for Quality Ranking of Media - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus comprises a processor configured to determine at least one quality parameter for a media, assign a value to each quality parameter of the media, calculate a quality score for the media based at least in part on the value for each quality parameter, receive a search request, and transmit search results based at least in part on the quality score of the media. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100131486 | Analyzer Engine - Methods and systems provide a tool for searching and analyzing XPS files. In accordance with the described embodiments, a user can search and analyze XPS files without having a full understanding of an associated software development kit (SDK). Further, in at least some embodiments, the tool can load an XPS file, analyze XPS/OPC/ZIP metadata information, and store the metadata information into a set of predefined rules. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100145923 | RELAXED FILTER SET - Searching for a subset of the keywords in a search-engine query is described herein. The search-engine query is parsed into keywords. The keywords are checked against an inverted index to determine whether any web documents include the subset of keywords. Documents containing the subset of keywords are listed in a search-results list and transmitted back to the user. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100153358 | INFORMATION SEARCHING AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM AND METHOD - The invention disclosed herein is directed to a system and method for displaying graphics, text, video and other information and content. In one embodiment of the invention, the system comprises a web portal. The web portal may include one or more display windows, each of which is capable of displaying different content. Other features of the invention may include functionality which permits the uploading and downloading of content and statistical data gathering. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100169299 | Method and system for information extraction and modeling - Systems and methods for modeling information from a set of documents are disclosed. A tool allows a user to extract and model concepts of interest and relations among the concepts from a set of documents. The tool automatically configures a database of the model so that the model and extracted concepts from the documents may be customized, modified, and shared. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100191715 | Computer Implemented System for Providing Musical Message Content - A computer-implemented system is disclosed for providing musical message content. The system can accept a request specifying at least one musical theme and a destination email address or telephone number. The system then selects at least one appropriate musical recording from a database of musical recordings associated with themes, and provides a selected musical recording to the designated destination. The requesting and/or receiving devices can be telephones, cell phones, smart phones, PDA's, email-enabled devices, and/or web-enabled devices. Thematic categories can relate to emotions, relationships, special occasions, occupations, religions, and music. A message and/or picture and/or video can be delivered with the musical recording, and user interfaces can facilitate selection of any or all message elements, including selection of a musical recording from a group of candidate recordings associated with the specified theme or themes. In some embodiments, user-submitted musical recordings can be added to the database. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100228717 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING IMS DATABASES ON A MAINFRAME COMPUTER - A system and method for ensuring existence all IMS database components operating on a mainframe computer may include a storage unit configured to store multiple IMS databases and multiple respective sets of IMS database components. A processing unit may be in communication with the storage unit. Software, when executed on the processing unit, may cause the processing unit to (i) access multiple IMS database libraries, (ii) identify each set of IMS database components that is missing at least one IMS database component in the IMS database libraries, and (iii) generate a report listing each set of IMS database components missing at least one IMS database component. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100281012 | AUTOMATIC RECOMMENDATION OF VERTICAL SEARCH ENGINES - The automatic search engine recommendation technique described herein automatically recommends topic-specific search engines for user queries. In one embodiment, it automatically matches each query submitted to a non-topic specific or general search engine with one or more vertical search engines using a recommendation model and a set of features. For a given query, one embodiment of the technique suggests vertical search engines and topic-specific search results along with the search results from the general search engine. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100287154 | METHODS FOR SEARCHING DIGITAL FILES ON A USER INTERFACE - There are provided methods for searching at least one desired digital file on a user interface. The user interface may include a first section showing a first sorted listing of digital files and a second section showing a second sorted listing of groupings by which the digital files in the first sorted listing are grouped. The user interface may be on either a touch-screen display or a non touch-screen display. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20110010357 | INTELLEGENT AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION TOOLBAR SEARCH METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present invention relates to an intelligent automatic recognition toolbar search method and system in which while the system is displayed in the form of a toolbar in a client's web browser or application program, the client can search for and find all sorts of information within the toolbar, without neither being connected to a separate search site nor affecting the opened web page, by searching for query terms and displaying search results as lists in the toolbar. The intelligent automatic recognition toolbar search method of the present invention comprises the steps of: installing a toolbar in a user client's web browser or application program, wherein the toolbar comprises a search window in which query terms are entered and a search result display window that displays basic search content items as search results for the query terms and results corresponding to the search content items; recognizing a query term entered in the search window of the toolbar and registering information about search sites that search for the information on the query term; registering the search site used in performing a search on the query term as the basic search site among the registered search sites; when the user client enters a query term in the search window and performs a search on the entered query term, performing the search on the entered query term using the query term of the basic search site and storing the search results which are divided into search content items and detailed results corresponding to the search content items; displaying the search results in the search result display window; and when the registered search site is displayed and a query term is entered in the search window in the web browser, extracting and searching for the query term entered in the search window of the search site as a query term of the toolbar. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110060730 | REVERSE PORTAL SYSTEM AND METHOD - The reverse portal system and method ( | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110066608 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING TARGETED CONTENT TO A USER - An architectural stack includes a rules proxy. The rules proxy may be between a web server and a HTTP proxy cache, and may be an HTTP proxy application. The rules proxy receives a user request to access a web page from the web server, captures user data (e.g., referrer data and/or session data) from the user request, applies a rule to the user data to assign the user to a user bucket, generates a web page with content using the assigned user bucket, and delivers the user-specific, generated web page to the user. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110071999 | SELECTING AND PRESENTING USER SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON USER INFORMATION - A search engine stores different taxonomies that each specifies categories and relationships between the categories. When the search engine receives a request having a search query, the search engine determines which taxonomy, if any, it should use to generate a search engine results page. The search engine bases this determination upon information provided to it in the request, in one embodiment. For example, the search engine might select a taxonomy based on the particular environment from which the search query originated. However, the search engine can select the taxonomy based on other information, such as a role of the user. Thus, a medical researcher and a financial analyst for a particular corporation could receive search engine results pages that were generated with appropriate taxonomies for each of them. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110082851 | GMPS/TMS search engine and method thereof - A business exploitation system for communicating with a network terminals, comprising a networking system for enrolling members and information sharing, adapted for assigning a member status to the business entity which requires a contact information with a real business address; a global map position search (GMPS) system for providing a GMPS method; a target map search (TMS) system for providing a TMS method, where a search result obtained through the system includes one or more search result units, assigned with a sub-category associated with a preset category symbol, thereby the search result is displayed as the search result units in the form of geographical spots on a map at a glance, that the contact information and accessory information of the member is associated with the corresponding geographical spot on the map which is viewable through the corresponding geographical spot on the map. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110082852 | Method for Digitally Labelling Websites - A host website, method and system for digitally labelling websites or subscribers with digital labels which represent characteristics or qualities of the website is disclosed. Digital labels are stored on host websites, each of which is directed to a specific subject or activity. The host website can also provide digital labels for storage in other host websites. The host website is provided with artificial intelligence capabilities. Methods and systems for asymmetric access in a host website database are disclosed. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110093448 | SYSTEM METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PEDIGREE ANALYSIS - This invention pertains in general to the field of data mining. More particularly the invention relates to a system ( | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093449 | SEARCH ENGINE AND METHODOLOGY, PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE TO PATENT LITERATURE - A search engine for searching based on related scientific or technological concepts, comprises: a learning module for learning about relationships between technical phrases based on their rates of occurrence in related documents, therefrom to form concepts from groupings of related phrases, and a search module for searching for related documents to a query document based on occurrence in said related documents of concepts present in said query document, the learning module carrying out said learning based on a training set of documents and inter-document relations. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110099158 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING, REPORTING, AND TRACKING CONFLICTS IN A CHANGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A system and method for automatically detecting, reporting, and tracking conflicts in a change management system is provided. In particular, the system and method described herein may be used to identify potential conflicts associated with resources and schedules involved in a proposed change to an information technology infrastructure. A conflict analysis engine may analyze a change order that includes planned changes to an information technology infrastructure to identify potential conflicts associated with the change order that includes the planned changes to the information technology infrastructure. The potential conflicts may then be added to a conflicts list for the change order and a workflow may be created to manage resolving the potential conflicts. Thus, in response to resolving the potential conflicts, the planned changes may be deployed within the information technology infrastructure. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110131196 | FSA CONTEXT SWITCH ARCHITECTURE FOR PROGRAMMABLE INTELLIGENT SEARCH MEMORY - Memory architecture provides capabilities for high performance content search. The architecture creates an innovative memory that can be programmed with content search rules which are used by the memory to evaluate presented content for matching with the programmed rules. When the content being searched matches any of the rules programmed in the Programmable Intelligent Search Memory (PRISM) action(s) associated with the matched rule(s) are taken. Content search rules comprise of regular expressions which are converted to finite state automata (FSA) and then programmed in PRISM for evaluating content with the search rules. PRISM architecture comprises of a plurality of programmable PRISM Search Engines (PSE) organized in PRISM memory clusters that are used simultaneously to search content presented to PRISM. A context switching architecture enables transitioning of PSE states between different input contexts. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110137884 | TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATICALLY INTEGRATING SEARCH FEATURES WITHIN AN APPLICATION - Techniques for automatically integrating search features within an application are provided. Text is collected and used as a background search while a user enters the text into an application for purposes of acquiring related results. The related results are obtained from previous information entered by the user or received by the user within the application. Moreover, the related results are dynamically presented in a portion of the application as the user continues to enter the text into another and different portion of the application. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110173175 | ENHANCED SEARCH ENGINE - A search engine system capable of displaying indicative information to a user from searches performed by entities connected directly or indirectly to the user, where the system includes at least one host computer processor connectable to one or more network(s), a database accessible over the network(s), a plurality of data input devices connectable to the network(s) the search engine being accessible over the network(s). | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110179008 | HOSTING MULTIPLE LOGICAL DATABASES CONTAINED IN PHYSICAL DATABASE - Architecture that defines a logical database that shares physical resources with a containing physical database. The architecture isolates the relational engine system metadata parts of a database in horizontal scopes to form separate namespaces, and shares the underlying storage engine system metadata. Sharing physical database resources enables efficient input/output (I/O) utilization and instantaneous database creation and growth. In addition, logical databases can be backed up as a single transactionally consistent unit. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110179009 | INTERNET-BASED OPINION SEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND INTERNET-BASED OPINION SEARCH AND ADVERTISING SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention relates to an Internet-based opinion search system and an opinion search and advertisement service system and method for same, wherein user opinion information scattered across various websites existing on the Internet is automatically extracted and analyzed to provide opinion search services so that search and statistical results may be checked based on affirmative/negative opinions, and also provides appropriate custom advertisement services to individual opinion search users in addition to user opinion information scattered across various websites on the Internet so that: opinion search users may easily and quickly search and monitor the opinions of other users with respect to a specific keyword, substantial amount of time formerly spent searching for opinions of other users may be greatly reduced, opinions of other users with respect to a specific keyword may be searched and monitored easily and quickly from the standpoint of an opinion search user, and more efficient advertisement effects can be obtained regarding the goods from the standpoint of a sponsor, which can effectively improve the probability of purchase of goods. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110184930 | Methods and Systems for Adjusting a Scoring Measure Based on Query Breadth - Methods and systems for adjusting a scoring measure of a search result based at least in part on the breadth of a previously-executed search query associated with the search result are described. In one described system, a search engine determines a popularity measure for a search result, and then adjusts the popularity measure based at least in part on a query breadth measure of a previously-executed search query associated with the search result. The search engine may use a variety of query breadth measures. For example, the search engine may use the quantity of results returned by the search query, the length of the query, the IR score drop-off, or some other measure of breadth. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110202519 | CUSTOMISATION OF THE APPEARANCE OF A USER INTERFACE - A querying system in a computer apparatus may be customized by connection of a removable storage medium device to a storage medium interface of the computer apparatus. It is detected whether, in the storage medium thereof, there is stored customisation data that that indicates a change to the query engine data identifying locations where query messages are sent. If so, the query engine data in the computer apparatus is changed accordingly. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202520 | NAVIGATION ASSISTANCE FOR SEARCH ENGINES - Search assistance is provided to users that submit search queries to search engines. In one implementation, a partial search query input by a user to a search engine is received. The partial search query is predicted to be a navigational query. A web address is selected based on the predicted navigational query. A search assistance list that includes the selected web address is generated. The search assistance list is displayed to the user in response to the received partial search query. In another implementation, a plurality of suggested search queries is determined for the received partial search query. A suggested search query of the plurality of suggested search queries having a highest relevance to the user is determined. A search assistance list is generated and displayed to the user. The suggested search query having the highest relevance to the user is prominently displayed in the search assistance list. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110238652 | SERVICE DIRECTORY AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A unique process-oriented task database contains a hierarchal organization of work tasks. A service provider selects one or more tasks from the database to populate a record corresponding to the service provider; and the record is recorded in a service provider database. A consumer selects tasks from the task database to query the service provider database. The consumer then searches the service provider database with a search engine using tasks selected from the task database. The search engine returns a list of one or more service providers satisfying the search criteria, including the process-oriented task or tasks that the service provider selected from the task database. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110246441 | CONSTRUCTING A DOMAIN-SPECIFIC ONTOLOGY BY MINING THE WEB - A method, apparatus, and program product is provided for constructing a domain-specific ontology for interpreting a policy. A phrase assumed to be associated with a policy is received. An indefinite term in the phrase is identified. Internet searches are performed on a plurality of terms from the phrase. A plurality of potential replacement terms is extracted from the Internet search results for the indefinite term. A context-specific ontology is built for the indefinite term based upon tracked occurrences of the plurality of potential replacement terms. The policy is interpreted by accessing the domain-specific ontology to interpret the indefinite term, where the indefinite term is interpreted by mapping the indefinite term to a plurality of potential replacement terms in the ontology for a plurality of contexts, and creating a policy based upon the interpretation of the indefinite term from the ontology. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110264645 | INFORMATION PRESENTATION SYSTEM - An information presentation system that identifies information of interest to a user based on identifying tasks that may be relevant to the user given the user's current context. The user may be presented with an option to select from among relevant tasks and/or goals of completing the task. For each selected task and goal, the system may generate one or more sets of items that are relevant to completing the task. The user may be presented with the option to select from among the sets of items or to navigate among the sets of items. Such a system may be used to provide an easy-to-use interface on a portable computing device to support shopping applications. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110276560 | Apparatus and Method for Displaying Search Results with a Variety of Display Paradigms - A graphical user interface includes tabs representative of different classes of search results. The tabs are derived in response to the processing of a query. The different classes of search results group content by meaning, such that a query term with different meanings produces different classes of search results with different meanings. Further, stacks associated with each tab are derived. Each stack shares common attributes associated with a tab but has a refined meaning representing a different class of search results. Each stack includes text to characterize a class of search results. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110320424 | ASSESSING AND ADAPTING COMPONENT PARAMETERS - A parameter-selection technique that allows preferred permutations to be rapidly identified based on real-world user behavior is described. In particular, a set of web pages that include different permutations of the set of parameters are generated. Then, at least a subset of these web pages is provided to the users in response to their requests. For example, the requests may be associated with user selections of search results, which are associated with search queries provided by the users to a search engine. While the users interact with the subset of the set of web pages, their actions and the associated context (with respect to the different permutations) are tracked. Next, the tracked user actions are used to identify the web pages associated with the preferred permutations of the set of parameters. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320425 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INTELLIGENCE CENTERS - Disclosed herein, among other things, is a system comprising a content repository, a communication portal developer, a content manager, and an analytic engine. The content repository is adapted to store electronic content in a computer-readable storage medium. The communication portal developer includes at least one wizard to create a plurality of customizable portals without coding software. Each customizable portal is accessible to one or more selected visitors through a web browser. The content manager is adapted to publish selectable electronic content to selectable portals. The content manager includes at least one wizard to populate and manage the electronic content within the content repository. The analytic engine analyzes electronic content use and visitor behavior while logged into their customizable portal. In various embodiments, the analytics are provided in real time or near real time. Other embodiments are disclosed herein. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120036117 | SELECTION OF ADVERTISEMENTS TO PRESENT ON A WEB PAGE OR OTHER DESTINATION BASED ON SEARCH ACTIVITIES OF USERS WHO SELECTED THE DESTINATION - A tracking system passively tracks and records searches conducted by actual search engine users. The recorded data for each search event preferably includes the search query submitted, the search engine used, the search result item (e.g., web page) selected, the position (e.g., page number) of this item, and the user's IP address. The collected data is aggregated and analyzed to generate data regarding the search queries used to locate and access particular destinations (e.g., web pages and sites). This data may be used for various purposes, such as (1) to generate reports showing, e.g., how users reach a particular destination from different search engines and geographic locations, (2) to select content to display on a destination page, such that the content is relevant to search queries commonly used to locate that page, and (3) to update the database of one search engine to reflect searches conducted on other search engines. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120041936 | SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION AT SCALE - A method for optimizing search results for an entity includes determining a grouping for actions related to an entity. The grouping may include a plurality of terms. The method may also include searching a network for the terms associated with the grouping. Thereafter, results of the searches may be analyzed to determine a rank for the entity within the results. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120041937 | NLP-BASED SENTIMENT ANALYSIS - Methods, systems, and techniques for providing sentiment analysis and for presenting the results of such analysis Example embodiments provide a Sentiment Analysis System (“SAS”), which provides tools to enable authors, programmers, users, developers, and the like to incorporate sentiment analysis into their content, such as into their web pages, and other web blogs or textual content. In one embodiment, the SAS provides a Sentiment Analysis Engine, an SAS API, and one or more user interface tools for presenting sentiment analysis. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120078873 | USING ONTOLOGICAL INFORMATION IN OPEN DOMAIN TYPE COERCION - A computer-implemented system, method and program product generates answers to questions in an input query text string. The method includes determining, by a programmed processor unit, a lexical answer type (LAT) string associated with an input query; automatically obtaining a candidate answer string to the input query from a data corpus; mapping the query LAT string to a first type string in a structured resource; mapping the candidate answer string to a second type string in the structured resource; and determining if the first type string and the second type string are disjointed; and scoring the candidate answer string based on the determination of the types being disjointed wherein the structured resource includes a semantic database providing ontological content. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120084276 | PROVIDING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN OBJECTS AND INDIVIDUALS ASSOCIATED WITH RELEVANT MEDIA ITEMS - Embodiments provide identification and/or reporting features as part of managing aspects of a product and/or service, but are not so limited. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method uses one or more search references to identify media items that correspond with the one or more search references and one or more individuals associated with each media item. The method of one embodiment provides a searching and identification service that uses one or more images as one or more search key inputs to identify relevant images of a media collection, including associating information of any depicted individuals with search key inputs. In one embodiment, a computing system operates to provide an association, reporting, and/or display service as part of managing an asset by using one or more search references to search through an image collection as part of determining how a product or service is being used by characterizing an association between each individual associated with the image and the one or more search references. Other embodiments are included and available. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120084277 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING PERSONALIZED FEDERATED SEARCH AND PRESENTATION OF RESULTS THEREFROM - The present disclosure provides user-interface methods and systems for submitting search requests to search engines and presenting search results therefrom customized using content preferences learned about a user, comprising sending query information to at least two search engines, including a query identifying desired content, and user information, including context information describing the environment in which the query information is being sent, and a user signature representing content preferences learned about the user; receiving at least one set of a search result and auxiliary information from the at least one search engine in response to sending the query information, including information describing attributes of the search result that led to the search result being chosen by the at least one search engine; ordering the at least one search result based at least in part on the auxiliary information; and presenting the ordered search results to the user. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120124026 | METHOD FOR ASSIGNING ONE OR MORE CATEGORIZED SCORES TO EACH DOCUMENT OVER A DATA NETWORK - The present invention relates to a method, server and computer readable recording medium of assigning one or more categorized scores to a linked document, being linked from at least one linking document, over a data network, comprising: (a) determining one or more categorized scores of at least one linking document having at least one link to a linked document; (b) performing one or more of the following: (b.1.) analyzing one or more parameters of said at least one link from said at least one linking document to said linked document; and (b.2.) analyzing one or more parameters of said linked document; and (c) assigning one or more categorized scores to said linked document according to at least said one or more categorized scores of said at least one linking documents. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120130979 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING DIFFERENTIAL CHANGES IN CONFORMAL DATA INPUT SETS - Embodiments relate to systems and methods for tracking differential changes in conformal data input sets. A database can store sets of operational data, such as financial, medical, climate or other information. For given data, a portion of the input data can be known or predetermined, while for a second portion can be unknown and subject to interpolation. The interpolation engine can generate a conformal interpolation function and interpolated input sets that map to a set of target output data. The operator can access a view of known (or interpolated) input data to view one or more series of interpolated input data, and analyze the differential between those interpolated values. The operator can for instance apply a constraint or filter to view only those interpolated series whose maximum marginal difference for any variable is less that a given threshold, such as ten percent, and graphically navigate between different series. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120136849 | Dynamic Selection of Point-Of-Interest Search Services - A method and a system for point-of-interest search is disclosed. A search request including a location information acquired by a mobile device at a location defined by the location information is received at a server. A search query is formulated using the search request and the location information. The search query is sent to a plurality of search engines and search results are received from the plurality of search engines and aggregated based on the search context. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120150836 | TRAINING PARSERS TO APPROXIMATELY OPTIMIZE NDCG - A supervised technique uses relevance judgments to train a dependency parser such that it approximately optimizes Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG) in information retrieval. A weighted tree edit distance between the parse tree for a query and the parse tree for a document is added to a ranking function, where the edit distance weights are parameters from the parser. Using parser parameters in the ranking function enables approximate optimization of the parser's parameters for NDCG by adding some constraints to the objective function. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150837 | OPTIMIZING BLENDING ALGORITHMS USING INTERLEAVING - Methods and computer-readable media are provided for interleaving multiple sets of blended search results to identify a preferred set of blended search results for a search query or for a category of search queries. A search query is received and routed to multiple ranking systems, which return search results that are blended into sets of blended search results. Interleaving experiments are performed to determined, based on user preferences, which set of blended search results are preferred for that particular search query. Based on the outcome, a preferred blending algorithm is identified. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120158693 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING WEB PAGES FOR TOPICS UNASSOCIATED WITH A DOMINANT URL - Techniques are provided for identifying topics that are unassociated with a dominant URL. A set of keywords associated with a topic is identified. A search log is scanned to identify search queries associated with the set of keywords. The identified search queries are grouped into clusters. Clusters associated with similar URLs are merged to generate an extended seed query string. The extended seed query string is analyzed to determine whether it relates to an existing dominant URL. If the extended seed query string is determined to be unassociated with an existing dominant URL, a web page associated with the topic may be generated. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120179664 | Methods And Systems For Processing Media Files - Systems and methods for processing media files are described. In one embodiment, one or more events are captured having associated event data and associated with a client device, wherein each event is associated with an article and at least one of the articles is a media file, wherein at least one of the events is captured in real time upon the occurrence of the event, at least some of the event data and articles associated with the events are indexed and stored, a search query is received, and the at least one media file is determined as relevant to the search query. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120191690 | PARAMETER EXPRESSIONS FOR MODELING USER DEFINED FUNCTION EXECUTION IN ANALYTICAL DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS - Systems and apparatuses are provided for analytical data processing. A system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising machine readable instructions executable by the processor. The instructions include a query compiler to identify a call to a user defined function within a query. The call to a user defined function includes an input argument and a parameter expression defining a parameter value for the user defined function. A processing engine executes the user defined function to provide a function output according to the input argument and the defined parameter value. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120221544 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR MOBILE SEARCH - A method, an apparatus, and a system for mobile search are provided. The method for mobile search includes: receiving a search request, where the search request carries keyword information to be searched for, and an instant interest model and a long-term interest model acquired by a search application server; calculating a relevance score value of each member engine according to the search request, meta index information of the member engine, the instant interest model, and the long-term interest model; and selecting one or more member engines according to the relevance score value to search for the keyword information. The searching for the keyword information may integrate an instant interest model and a long-term interest model of a user, so as to provide users with personalized and highly accurate search result information that meets demands. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120226677 | METHODS FOR DETECTING SENSITIVE INFORMATION IN MAINFRAME SYSTEMS, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIA AND SYSTEM UTILIZING SAME - Examples of methods, systems, and computer-readable media for detection of sensitive information are described using multiple techniques. The techniques may include applying pre-defined field structure layouts to records, applying simple template structure to records as a single field, and inferring data structure by building a map of potential packed decimal locations. The resulting information may then be analyzed for detection of sensitive information. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120254148 | SERVING MULTIPLE SEARCH INDEXES - Multiple search indexes can be served from a common set of resources. Instead of requiring a processor to be dedicated to serving a single search index, a processor can provide responsive documents for search queries that are based on different ranking algorithms and/or different sets of documents. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120259831 | User Information Needs Based Data Selection - Techniques for determining user information needs and selecting data based on user information needs are described herein. The present disclosure describes extracting topics of interests to users from multiple sources including search log data and social network website, and assigns a budget to each topic to stipulate the quota of data to be selected for each topic. The present disclosure also describes calculating similarities between gathered data and the topics, and selecting top related data with each topic subject to limit of the budget. A search engine may use the techniques described here to select data for its index. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120271811 | PREDICTING AND USING SEARCH ENGINE SWITCHING BEHAVIOR - Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to predicting and using search engine switching behavior. In aspects, switching components receive a representation of user interactions with at least one browser. The switching components derive information from the representation that is useful in predicting whether a user will switch search engines. The derived information and information about a user's current interaction with a browser is then used by a switch predictor to predict whether the user will switch search engines. This prediction may be used in a variety of ways examples of which are given herein. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120323880 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND SOFTWARE FOR IDENTIFYING RELEVANT LEGAL DOCUMENTS - To facilitate legal research, companies, such as Thomson West provide subscription-based online information-retrieval systems. Seeking to improve these and/or related systems, the present inventors devised, among other things, an exemplary legal research system that performs a conventional search to identify a set of starter documents and then leverages the metadata associated with these starter documents to identify another larger set of relevant documents. Documents in this alternate set are then scored using, for example, a learning machine and feature vectors that account for metadata relationships between the starter documents and alternate documents. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20130041880 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERIC ENTERPRISE SEARCH ADAPTER QUERIES - According to some embodiments, a method and system provides receiving a request to execute a query for a business object (BO) instance for an application, the request including selection criteria; determining whether to execute the query by the application or a separate search engine, the determining based on metadata associated with the BO instance; sending the selection criteria to the search engine to execute the query in response to the determination that the query is to be executed by the search engine; receiving a result of the query execution from the search engine; and providing an output of the query result. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130086035 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING EXTENDED PAGE SNIPPET OF SEARCH RESULT - A method and apparatus for generating an extended page snippet in a search engine. The method includes: retrieving and returning an associated table webpage having a table related to an inquired keyword; obtaining a parsed result of the table in the associated table webpage, and extracting column names and respective row instances on the basis of the parsed result; determining the row instances related to the inquired keyword; and generating a page snippet in a table style in accordance with the column names and the relative row instances. The page snippet in the table style can be generated by using a solution of the present invention. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130091114 | AUTOMATIC CRAWLING OF ENCODED DYNAMIC URLS - A computer program product for crawling URLs that are encoded and highly dynamic, the computer program product includes a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith. The computer readable program code includes computer readable program code configured to retrieve navigational state information corresponding to a URL and compare the navigational state information to previously stored navigational state information corresponding to one or more previously visited URLs. The computer readable program code also includes computer readable program code configured to determine if the URL has been previously visited and retrieve content associated with the URL if the URL has not been previously visited. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091115 | AUTOMATIC CRAWLING OF ENCODED DYNAMIC URLS - A method includes retrieving navigational state information corresponding to a URL; analyzing which navigational state to consider for page identification; comparing the navigational state information to previously stored navigational state information corresponding to one or more previously visited URLs; determining if the URL has been previously visited; and retrieving content associated with the URL if the URL has not been previously visited. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091116 | SELECTING AND PRESENTING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON DISTINCT TAXONOMIES - A search engine stores different taxonomies that each specifies categories and relationships between the categories. When the search engine receives a request having a search query, the search engine determines which taxonomy, if any, it should use to generate a search results page. The search engine bases this determination upon information provided to it in the request, in one embodiment. For example, the search engine might select a taxonomy based on the particular environment from which the search query originated. However, the search engine can select the taxonomy based on other information, such as a role of the user. Thus, a medical researcher and a financial analyst for a particular corporation could receive search results pages that were generated with appropriate taxonomies for each of them. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130110809 | ASSOCIATING SEARCH TERMS WITH A DOWNLOADED FILE | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130110810 | AD-HOC QUERIES INTEGRATING USAGE ANALYTICS WITH SEARCH RESULTS | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130110811 | COMPUTER AND METHOD FOR MAKING SEARCH ENGINE SEARCH RESOURCE OF COMPUTER SYSTEM INCLUDING STORAGE SYSTEM AND FOR DISPLAYING RESULT OF THE SEARCH | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130124496 | CONTEXTUAL PROMOTION OF ALTERNATIVE SEARCH RESULTS - A toolbar extension of a web browser suggests a user try searching a different search engine than the one on which the user has just conducted a search. The toolbar detects the user is frustrated with the search results returned by the search engine by monitoring a number of session heuristics. Analyzing historical user session, log, and click data of other users who have submitted the search query to different search engines, a different search engine is selected that has historically generated better search results. A suggestion is then presented to the user to run the search query in the more effective search engine. Such a suggestion may be presented in a number of ways, but one embodiment displays a window next to the text field of the toolbar and provides a link to conduct a search for the search query in the more effective search engine. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130159276 | MAP-BASED SELECTION OF QUERY COMPONENT - A search engine may allow a user to add and modify geographic constraints interactively through the use of a map. In one example, the user enters a search query, and the search engine determines whether the query is amenable to a geographic constraint. If the query is amenable to a geographic constraint, then the search engine may provide an interactive map through which the user may specify a geographic boundary. The search engine may then uses the geographic boundary as a constraint on the search, and may return documents that relate to the geographic area indicated by the boundary. The user may zoom in or out on the region defined by the boundary, or may move the boundary, thereby interactively focusing, de-focusing, and modifying the search based on geography. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130166530 | Method and System for Analyzing Data Using a Query Answering System - A natural language query answering system includes an external data pre-processor configured to i) analyze a first data set, the first data set received via a communication network, to identify data in the first data set that corresponds to entities in a database comprising categorized entities, and ii) generate a second data set corresponding to the first data set and based on the analysis of the first data set, wherein the second data set includes information indicating how data in the second data set is to be interpreted by the natural language query answering system. The natural language query answering system is configured to retrieve data and/or process data from the second data set in response to natural language queries. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130191364 | SYSTEM TO MODIFY A WEBSITE FOR SEARCH OPTIMIZATION - A system to optimize a website for a search of a topic includes a processor, a memory, and instructions to cause the processor to receive at least one term related to the topic, and to receive web objects pertaining to the website to be optimized. The system is to calculate at least one metric pertaining to the at least one term and the web objects. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130238587 | Search Query Transformations - A search engine system, including a slash-tag server. The server can be configured to receive a query including at least one key word from a user, generate an alternative search query, based on the at least one key word in the search query received from the user. The alternative search query may include at least one slashtag associated with the at least one key word for use in searching unaltered internet documents. Also, it may launch a search query using the alternative search query. Further, a web server could be configured to retrieve content from one or more nodes of at least one database cluster, based on the launched search query, generate a first search result, based on the alternative search query, and cause display of the first search result in a web browser. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238588 | Dynamic Inference Graph - A search engine system, including a slashtag server configured to detect at least one key word in a search query and generate an alternative search query from the at least one key word, the alternative search query being based at least on computing an intermediary search of a plurality of characters from the at least one key word as the plurality of characters are being typed by a user, and for use in searching unaltered internet documents. Also a web server that may be configured to generate a first search result based on the alternative search query and cause display of the first search result in a web browser. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130290291 | Tokenized Search Suggestions - Embodiments of tokenized search suggestions include generating, by at least one suggestion engine executing on a data processing system, first suggestions based on first text input in a text input field. The first suggestions are displayed on a display device and a selection of one of the first suggestions is received. The first text input is replaced with a first token corresponding to the selected one of the first suggestions. The at least one suggestion engine generates second suggestions based on second text input in the text input field and filters the second suggestions using the selected one of the first suggestions. The filtered selections are displayed on a display device. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130325839 | Single Search Box Global - A global single search system that returns relevant search results for a user search query by identifying user intent and context implied therein. The system supports POI and address searches initiated from a single search box global only. Search query data is input in a single search box on a single search client to initiate a search for an arbitrary piece of data. Meta-data concerning a nature of a search is not provided to the single search system. A search servlet uses an ordered series of filter methods to extract specific aspects of user intent from a freeform search query, and accumulate intent information within a context shared by all filters. The system determines a data corpus to search based on context provided in a user search query. Relevant search results are returned to the single search client in a search response. The global single search system supports global markets. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130339335 | 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. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130346385 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A PURPOSEFUL SHARING ENVIRONMENT - The present invention is directed to systems and method for a purposeful sharing environment. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140006372 | IDENTIFYING AND RECOMMENDING EXPERTS USING SHARED POSTS AND INTERACTIONS | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140032523 | AUTOMATIC LINK GENERATION FOR VIDEO WATCH STYLE - In one embodiment, a computer implemented method is illustrated as including receiving selection data generated by a media player application, the selection data being related to digital content. Additionally, generating an instruction set that includes the selection data, the instruction set being formatted based upon a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) schema. Inserting the instruction set into a query portion of a URI. A method is also illustrated as including receiving a URI associated with digital content, the URI containing an instruction set in a query portion of the URI. Parsing the instruction set to retrieve selection data relating to the digital content. Further, the method may include retrieving the digital content based upon the selection data. Moreover, the method may include generating a data stream including the digital content. Additionally, the method may include transmitting the data stream including the digital content. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140040231 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SEARCHING SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS - The present invention relates to methods and systems for searching software applications, including mobile applications (apps) and web apps/extensions/plug-ins (applications). The method comprises the steps of executing at least one app or application, collection application data from the app or application, storing the collected application data, receiving a query, searching the stored application data, and transmitting information regarding apps or applications whose corresponding stored application is relevant to the query. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040232 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TAGGING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ELEMENTS - A method for tagging multimedia content elements is provided. The method comprises receiving at least one multimedia content element from a user device; generating at least one signature for the at least one multimedia content element; generating at least one tag based on the least one generated signature, wherein the at least one tag is searchable by the user device; and sending the tag generated for the received multimedia content element to storage on the user device. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140059033 | MACHINE TRANSLATION USING INFORMATION RETRIEVAL - Systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer program products, are provided for machine translation using information retrieval techniques. In general, in one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes providing a received input segment as a query to a search engine, the search engine searching an index of one or more collections of documents, receiving one or more candidate segments in response to the query, determining a similarity of each candidate segment to the received input segment, and for one or more candidate segments having a determined similarity that exceeds a threshold similarity, providing a translated target segment corresponding to the respective candidate segment. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140067786 | ENHANCING PRODUCT SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS USING USER CLICK HISTORY - In an example embodiment, previous search queries and clicked-on results are retrieved. This results in one or more pairs, each pair containing a query from the search term database and a first set of search engine results from the click database. Then a score is calculated for each feature within the one or more pairs, and a second set of search queries is boosted using the scores for the features. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140081944 | WEB SEARCHING METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS - A web searching method isolates and presents relevant web pages based on analysis of keyword searches by a user and by users who have previously searched. First web pages are selected from a search result according to a keyword inputted by a user. Phrases in the first web pages are identified, and weightings of the phrases are computed. Phrases having higher weightings are selected. Related users previously requesting web pages related to the keyword are obtained and selected. Second web pages which were actually browsed by selected related users are obtained from the search result of the keyword, and phrases in the second web pages identified. Phrase intersections between the phrases from the second web pages and selected phrases from the first web pages are computed to realize an evaluation value of the selected related user. A help page showing searching histories of the related users is also displayed. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140101127 | SYSTEM AND METHODS THEREOF FOR DOWNLOADING APPLICATIONS VIA A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and system for downloading at least one application via a communication network are provided. The method comprises receiving an input search query from a user device; determining the search intent respective of the input search query, wherein the search intent indicates a topic of interest of a user of the user device; selecting, based on the search intent, at least one application from at least one applications central repository; creating a display segment over a display of the user device; displaying an icon corresponding to the at least one selected application in the display segment; establishing a direct communication link between the user device and a location hosting the at least one selected application in response to an input received from the user device; and downloading the application to the user device. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140108376 | ENHANCED DETECTION OF LIKE RESOURCES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for selecting resources associated with a common topic. In one aspect, a method includes selecting a first resource associated with a topic, the first resource accessed in a user session, selecting a second resource accessed during the user session, determining whether the second resource is associated with the topic, and increasing a relevance score of the second resource and the topic based on determining that the second resource is not associated with the topic. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140156624 | Producing, Archiving and Searching Social Content - A search engine configured to process social communications such that the social communications can be searched according to a specific time period is presented. The search engine (or related process) accesses a store or feed of social communications and segments the social communications according to time periods. The segments are processed such that a representative set of social communications related to topics of the time period are determined. The representative set of social communications is stored in a content store such that the search engine can retrieve them in response to a search query regarding social communications relating to a topic/time period. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156625 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR WIRELESS NETWORK DEPLOYMENT - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for wireless network deployment are disclosed. The systems, methods, and computer-readable media receive data from one or more client devices regarding one or more data sessions, wherein the received data comprises one or more identifiers and one or more data session characteristics. The systems, methods, and computer-readable media determine one or more locations associated with the one or more data sessions based on the one or more identifiers, and determine one or more deployment values for each of the one or more locations associated with the one or more data sessions based on the one or more data session characteristics. In addition, systems, methods, and computer-readable media output data associated with one or more wireless network deployment candidate locations based on the one or more locations associated with the one or more data sessions and the one or more deployment values. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140164348 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREVIEWING SEARCH RESULTS - A method for providing a search sample without a search being triggered is disclosed. The method includes receiving at least one partial search term in a search box. Probable search terms are determined by comparing the at least one partial search term to a database of common search terms. The probable search terms are displayed in a format that include a link to a sample search of each probable search term and a backslide button. When the link to a sample search of a probable search term is selected in the probable search terms, the sample search is displayed in a format that includes a close link. When the close link is selected in the sample search, the probable search terms are displayed again. When the backslide button is selected, the right most word from the search term is deleted. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140214788 | ANALYZING UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATORS - Methods for analyzing a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and apparatus for performing such methods. The methods include parsing the URL into text segments and generating n-grams from the text segments. The methods further include generating annotations, each annotation corresponding to one of the n-grams and comprising a match value for its corresponding n-gram, a description of its match value, and a score. The methods still further include selecting a subset of the annotations. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140244614 | Cross-Domain Topic Space - Some examples include receiving a microblog entry from a social stream domain. Further, some implementations include determining, based on a topic space associated with the social stream domain and a media domain, a topic that is associated with the microblog entry. Some implementations include determining, based on the topic space, one or more media items that are associated with the topic. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140250096 | Embedded Business Metadata - A methodology is disclosed for improving searches of a distributed Internet network. A distributed Internet network is searched for a particular information type, searching for a field identified using a predetermined identifier indicating that the field comprises information of the particular information type. When the field identified using the predetermined identifier is found, an association of the contents of the field with the search results is made, and repeated using the same predetermined identifier. Information of a particular information type may then be served in a field identified using a predetermined identifier that identifies the field as containing information of the particular information type. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140280008 | Axiomatic Approach for Entity Attribution in Unstructured Data - The present specification relates to Ontology modeling, and, more specifically, to systems and methods for populating a triple store (RDF Graph) data structure from a parse tree diagram and producing a measurable increased degree of confidence in the reliability of the inferences based on the matched axioms derived from the ontology model. The steps of populating and producing can be performed automatically. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140289216 | Computerized Internet Search System and Method - The present invention provides a system and method that can search social media and Internet websites, and can analyze and display the results according to a variety of criteria including virality on social media websites. The results are presented in a user friendly format such as a magazine, newsletter, newspaper, or scrapbook. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140297616 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISING ADVANCED JOB-TIME PLANNING AND SEARCH SERVICES FOR EMPLOYMENT SERVICES - The present invention generally relates to computer and web-based methods for employment matching and search services. Specifically, this invention relates to systems and methods for allowing employers and potential employees to create and edit job-time plans and match jobs with one or more potential employees based on specific criteria, such as job-time plans, availability and workload with matching made across a plurality of candidates. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140337308 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT RELATING TO A SUBJECT MATTER OF A DISPLAYED MEDIA PROGRAM - Disclosed is a system and method for analyzing, by a server computer, closed captioning text associated with a media program being experienced by a user having a client device. The server computer obtains, based on the analyzing, a subject matter of a portion of the media program from the closed captioning text. The server computer constructs a query associated with the determined subject matter and submits the query to a computer network as a search query. The server computer receives, in response to the submitting of the query, content relating to the subject matter and measures an elapsed time period between the receiving of the content and the obtaining of the subject matter. If the elapsed time period is less than a predetermined period of time, the server computer communicates, to the client device, information related to the content. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140358885 | Trending Topic Identification From Social Communications - Systems and methods for identifying trending topics from social communications are presented. Social communications from one or more social networking sites are obtained. Links within the social communications are extracted. In various embodiments, the extracted links are filtered such that the linked content corresponding to the extracted links that can be categorized as news are retained. Topic descriptors for the retained links are generated and the topic descriptors are stored in a trending topic data store as trending topics. According to various embodiments, the topic descriptors are stored in the trending topic data store with the extracted links. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140358886 | INTERNAL SEARCH ENGINES ARCHITECTURE - A pipeline of memory banks is configured to store and retrieve a forwarding address by distributing portions of the address across the memory banks and subsequently searching for the distributed values. A first value of the address is recoverable by searching for a value, stored by a first memory bank, by consuming a predetermined number of bits of a data unit from a data packet. If present, a subsequent value of the address is recoverable by searching another memory bank of the pipeline for a value of the address contained by a node of a linked list. The pipeline recovers the address by combining value found at the first memory bank with the value found by the node of the linked list at the other memory bank. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140379688 | Methods Performed by Electronic Devices that Facilitate Navigating a Webpage - A processor of an electronic device can implement methods that facilitate navigating a webpage. The methods may include: receiving ( | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150019523 | EVENT-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An event-based social networking system enables users of the system to create and schedule events, extend and respond to invitations, facilitate creation of albums of media memorializing the events and enabling members of the social network community to control sharing, viewing and commenting on media contained in the albums. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019524 | ASSIGNMENT OF DESIGNATIONS FOR MEASUREMENT SIGNALS AND DEVICES FROM A FIRST IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM TO A SECOND IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM WITHIN PROJECT PLANNING FOR A TECHNICAL INSTALLATION - A method and device for assigning measurement signal and device designations from a first to a second classification system within a projection of a technical system is provided. The process is implemented in an automated manner by a search engine. A measurement signal or device designation from the first classification system is entered into the search engine and converted into a search query. The text elements of the search query are processed, wherein text elements are semantically analyzed using terminology and compared with those of a list which contains all the designations from the second classification system. The text elements from the list which best match those of the search query are evaluated with respect to relevance and outputted as search results of the search engine. The search result with the maximum relevance corresponds to the designation from the second classification system and replaces designation from the first classification system. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019525 | Systems and Methods for Facilitating Participation - Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, comprising the steps of, or structure for, storing a plurality of expert profiles in a database, each of the plurality of expert profiles comprising information associated with a person having knowledge in a particular category, subject or topic; receiving search criteria over a network from a query source; selecting at least one of the plurality of expert profiles comprising information that satisfy the search criteria; and transmitting expert profile data for each of the selected expert profiles to the remote search engine, the expert profile data comprising data that defines a displayable representation of a corresponding expert profile, the expert profile data further comprising data that facilitates a client-initiated, real-time communication session over the network with a person associated with the corresponding expert profile. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019526 | INTELLIGENCE CENTERS - Disclosed herein, among other things, is a system comprising a content repository, a communication portal developer, a content manager, and an analytic engine. The content repository is adapted to store electronic content in a computer-readable storage medium. The communication portal developer includes at least one wizard to create a plurality of customizable portals without coding software. Each customizable portal is accessible to one or more selected visitors through a web browser. The content manager is adapted to publish selectable electronic content to selectable portals. The content manager includes at least one wizard to populate and manage the electronic content within the content repository. The analytic engine analyzes electronic content use and visitor behavior while logged into their customizable portal. In various embodiments, the analytics are provided in real time or near real time. Other embodiments are disclosed herein. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150026151 | TRIGGER QUERY OBTAINING APPARATUS, TRIGGER QUERY OBTAINING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A trigger query obtaining apparatus includes a graph creating unit, a score calculation unit, a trigger query obtaining unit, and an output unit. The graph creating unit creates a minimal directed graph having nodes each corresponding to a search query included in one of two search logs, and a link directed from one node to another node. The score calculation unit calculates a score for each node of a directed graph composed of minimal directed graphs, using a seed query. The trigger query obtaining unit obtains a trigger query that is a search query corresponding to a node having a score that satisfies a condition. The output unit outputs the trigger query. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150046423 | Refining Search Query Results - Systems and methods for refining search query results are provided. A first user input is received. A plurality of search categories for the first input are determined. The plurality of search categories are then associated with different segments of a first slider. The first slider allows a user to generate a search query for the first user input among the plurality of associated categories. The search query returns a set of search query results. A plurality of sub categories may be determined for each search category. The plurality of sub-categories are associated with different segments of a second slider. Movement of a slider button of a second slider to a first segment of the second slider may be detected. The search query results may be filtered based on the first segment of the second slider. The filtering adjusts a level of detail of the set of search query results. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046424 | Methods and systems for searching software applications - The present invention relates to methods and systems for searching software applications, including mobile applications (apps) and web apps/extensions/plug-ins (applications). The method comprises the steps of; executing at least one app or application, collection application data from the app or application, storing the collected application data, receiving a query, searching the stored application data, and transmitting information regarding apps or applications whose corresponding stored application is relevant to the query. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046425 | Methods and systems for searching software applications - A method for searching for software applications (or apps) is provided. In the method, one or more software applications are scheduled for execution according to a scheduling policy. The software applications are executed according to the scheduling policy. Application data of the software applications is collected. The collected application data is stored. A query is received. The stored application data is searched. Information regarding software applications whose corresponding stored application data relevant to the query is transmitted. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150081663 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACTIVE SEARCH ENVIRONMENT - A method and system for generating customized user content, wherein user content is a product of an active search environment. Under the active search environment, a computing device may log, record and store all information on the computing device's interactions with the user. The computing device may utilize the stored information to actively search and present additional content to the user that the user may enjoy. The computing device may further predict content that may appeal to the user or retrieve additional or related content the user might have searched for in the future, streamlining the user's interaction. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150088851 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR IMPLEMENTING ANALYTICS ON DEMAND FUNCTIONALITY - In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing analytics on-demand functionality. An exemplary system may include, for example: means for storing a plurality of objects within a database of the system, each object having a database table embodied therein; maintaining a data repository of custom report types, each custom report type defining a mapping between two or more of the database tables; means for receiving a request from a user client device communicably interfaced to the system, in which the request is for analytics data responsive to a user initiated event originating at the user client device; means for introspecting the data repository of custom report types and identifying one or more visualizations to be returned to the user client device for display; means for restricting the identified one or more visualizations by context of the user client device passed with the request from the user client device; and means for returning the one or more visualizations identified to the user client device. Other related embodiments are disclosed. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150088852 | ACCESSING DEEP WEB INFORMAITON USING A SEARCH ENGINE - Methods, apparatuses, and articles for receiving a search request associated with a transportation service from a client device, the search request including a plurality of search criteria, are described herein. Additionally, the methods, apparatuses, and articles further return to the client device an answer page having a plurality of answers potentially associated with the transportation service, the plurality of answers identifying a plurality of information locations having information potentially associated with at least a one of the plurality of search criteria, where at least one of the answers includes at least one input field of a query answer page for entry of at least one feature of the transportation service, the query answer page to be dynamically generated by one of the information locations in response to a query. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150149432 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEARCHING FINANCIAL DATA - Systems and methods are provided for searching financial data. For example, a device for searching transaction information is disclosed. The device may include interface hardware for receiving and providing information and a memory device for storing instructions. The device may also include one or more hardware processors configured to execute the instructions to receive a user request for information associated with one or more transactions in the form of a search query, transmit the search query to a transaction search engine for identification of one or more concepts from the search query, and receive, from the transaction search engine, responsive transaction data determined based on the one or more concepts identified from the search query. The one or more hardware processors may be further configured to determine a result that satisfies the user request based on the responsive transaction data, and provide the result via the interface hardware. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150302093 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FILTERING OF A WEBSITE - A method for facetted filtering of a plurality of webpages ( | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150302098 | DYNAMIC DIRECTORY AND CONTENT COMMUNICATION - Features for dynamic directory and content communication are described which provide bidirectionally optimize searches for users and/or content. One type of message which may be associated with a contact is a private descriptor identifying how the user wishes to identify the contact (e.g., other user). Other users of the system will not see this tag. Accordingly, when the user who provided the tag submits a search, the tag will be considered as part of the search. A global or public descriptor may also be associated with the contact. The public descriptor is added to the system by the contact and indicates how the contact wants the world to find and view him. All users of the system will see this tag. The public and private descriptors are used by a search engine to dynamically optimize searches conducted therewith. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150310115 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND SOFTWARE FOR SEARCHING, IDENTIFYING, RETRIEVING AND PRESENTING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - The present invention provides a method and system for identifying, retrieving and presenting electronic documents responsive to user queries. The three distinct inventive concepts are relevancy ranking of responsive documents based on component query technique; cross-lingual searching; and search expansion using analytics of initial results to derive and generate a modified query. Each of these inventions enhances document search and retrieval systems and the three solutions may be used separately or in any combination. The three inventions apply in layers above an underlying search system, controlling the submission of requests to the underlying system in support of received search requests, typically originating with an end user. Invention (III) provides a semantic-expansion capability specifically utilizing the availability of language independent fields in the data being searched with natural language query terms. This invention is enhanced by incorporating the preceding two inventions. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150356191 | WEB DOCUMENT ENHANCEMENT - A method for enhancing a presentation of a network document by a client terminal with real time social media content. The method comprises analyzing a content in a web document to identify a relation to a first of a plurality of multi participant events documented in an event dataset, each of the plurality of multi participant events is held in a geographical venue which hosts an audience of a plurality of participants, matching a plurality of event indicating tags of each of a plurality of user uploaded media content files with at least one feature of the first multi participant event to identify a group of user uploaded media content files selected from the plurality of user uploaded media content files, and forwarding at least some members of the group to a simultaneous presentation on a browser running on a client terminal and presenting the web document. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150379013 | Query Understanding Pipeline - A method for performing a search includes receiving a search query having one or more query terms from a remote device and generating a collection of one or more analyzed tokens based on the search query. The analyzed token collection is indicative of at least a subset of the query term(s). The method includes inputting the analyzed token collection into different parsers that each parse the analyzed token collection and/or the search query according to a parsing operation specific to the parser and output a parsed query including a list of one or more parsed tokens. Each parsed token includes a string, and at least one parsed token of at least one of the parsed queries includes one or more properties of the string. The method further includes generating a retrieval query based on the parsed queries outputted by the parsers and generating search results based on the retrieval query. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150379136 | Displaying Search Results on a User Device Using a Layout File - A method for displaying search results on a user device using a layout file includes receiving search results containing one or more result objects. Each result object includes a layout identifier, an access mechanism used to access a state of an application, and result data. For each result object the method includes retrieving a layout file of a plurality of layout files from a storage device based on the layout identifier, obtaining content based on the result data, and generating the user selectable link based on the access mechanism, the layout file, and the content. The layout file defines a template that is used to generate a user selectable link and corresponds to the application referenced by the one or more access mechanisms. The method further includes generating displayable search results using the generated user selectable links and providing, by the processing device, the displayable search results for display. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160034577 | 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 |
| 20160140228 | REFORMATTING QUERIES FOR SEARCH ENGINES AND DATA REPOSITORIES - The specification relates to providing a reformatted search query to a specific back end search engine or data repository. The search query is reformatted by identifying a domain of a search query. Based on the domain, a specific back end search engine or data repository associated with the domain is chosen to receive the reformatted query. The reformatting of the query is performed using a set of rules for the chosen back-end server. The reformatted query is sent to the at least one back-end server. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160147770 | INFORMATION THEORY BASED RESULT MERGING FOR SEARCHING HIERARCHICAL ENTITIES ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS DATA SOURCES - A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed for merging search results. In one embodiment, the method comprises identifying a query, splitting the query into sub-queries, and calculating information content for each of the sub-queries. This method also comprises executing each of the sub-queries to obtain a plurality of search results, and combining the search results based on the information content calculated for the sub-queries. In an embodiment, the execution of each of the sub-queries includes identifying a multitude of search results for at least one of the sub-queries; and the combining includes grouping said multitude of search results into a plurality of clusters, and computing a relevance score for each of said clusters. In the embodiment the combining further includes merging the clusters based on the relevance scores computed for the clusters as well as the information content calculated for the sub-queries. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160147885 | NORMALIZATION OF CONFIDENCE THRESHOLDS IN FEDERATED ENVIRONMENTS - Embodiments of the present invention provides methods, computer program products, and systems for normalizing confidence score thresholds across systems in a federated environment. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to calculate normalization factors for participating hubs in a federated environment to normalize confidence score thresholds applied by those hubs and improve search results obtained therefrom. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160378859 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PARSING AND AGGREGATING UNSTRUCTURED DATA OBJECTS - A computer-implemented method and a system parse and aggregate unstructured data objects. The method includes obtaining the unstructured data objects from description fields of records in a database comprising client tickets that are created for application maintenance, transforming the obtained unstructured data objects to create transformed data objects, identifying a number of criteria attributes of the client tickets, where the number of criteria attributes are determined according to at least part of the transformed data objects, word importance, word sentiment, a user input, or client ticket priorities, or any combinations, and generating a plurality of ticket reports by aggregating the client tickets according to ranking orders of numbers of tickets for the client tickets and the identified criteria attributes. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20190147109 | METHODS FOR PERFORMING A SEARCH AND DEVICES THEREOF | 05-16-2019 |
