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20100057800 | ANNOTATION INDEX SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of encoding on a computer system for information retrieval in an inverted list structure of annotation includes collecting a group of documents and storing them in a digital format, determining a group of annotations referencing the group of documents, and forming a snippet index by grouping the group of annotations by unique annotation identifier. The method also includes forming a snippet dictionary which, for each unique annotation identifier, indexes a corresponding position in the snippet index for the group of annotations having that unique annotation identifier. | 03-04-2010 |
20100057801 | User Characteristic Influenced Search Results - Improved mobile content presentation capabilities are disclosed for mobile communications facilities, such as cell phones. Information relating to the user characteristics associated with a mobile communication facility and other capabilities are employed to improve the presentation and relevance of mobile content to appropriate or desirable mobile communication facilities. | 03-04-2010 |
20100063966 | METHOD FOR FAST DE-DUPLICATION OF A SET OF DOCUMENTS OR A SET OF DATA CONTAINED IN A FILE - The invention relates to a method for comparing a textual document with an existing document base. An identifier Ii is allocated to this new document Di. The document is divided into blocks Pij, such as sentences. A “unique” key Eij is associated with each sentence Pij, then searching for this key Eij in a finite state machine in order to determine which are the documents of the document base that contain the sentence Pij. A similarity is calculated between the elements of the existing database and the dataset formed by the sentences Pij. The set of the old documents contained in the existing database is determined that contain at least a fixed percentage X % of sentences of the document to be compared. | 03-11-2010 |
20100063967 | UNIFIED SEARCHING AND RUNNING OF FILES - A unified user interface is described that allows a user to search, browse, and launch items from the same user interface. For example, a single text input box may be provided that allows the user to perform all these functions by typing in a portion of an item name or an entire item name. The various functions may be selectively performed depending upon the text inputted by the user into the text input box. For example, where the text appears to be the beginning of an item name, then those items matching the input text will dynamically appear as the user types. Or, where the text appears to be the beginning of a file path, then items in that file path may be presented. In addition, advanced items such as system files may be suppressed so that inexperienced users do not accidentally stumble across these items. | 03-11-2010 |
20100076964 | Instance-Class-Attribute Matching Web Page Ranking - To be applied on one more data processing systems, a collection of documents is ranked by class and attributes. Each document is associated with at least one primary class. Each class contains at least one attribute which extends the meaning of the class. All documents in the data repository are searched for an instance (keyword). The resulting documents are then grouped by the most frequently found class. Each document within each class is then searched and ordered by the most frequently found attributes for that class. Documents are grouped by most frequently found class and then ordered within each class by most frequently found attribute. | 03-25-2010 |
20100076965 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE, INFORMATION DISPLAY PROGRAM AND INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM - A weight processor | 03-25-2010 |
20100076966 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING SOCIAL INDEX SCORES FOR KEY TERM ANALYSIS AND COMPARISONS - In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method, in a computer network, for generating social index scores associated with key terms within web-based social network sites. Generally, the method comprises the steps of receiving an input of the key terms from a user, generating search queries from the key terms, providing the generated search queries to the web-based social network sites, capturing search results received from the web-based social network sites in response to the provided search queries, generating, from the captured search results, the social index scores using a processing algorithm, storing the generated social index scores in at least one database, and, providing at least one representation of the generated social index scores to the user in one or more of numerical, visual, and printed form. | 03-25-2010 |
20100082615 | CROSS-MEDIA SIMILARITY MEASURES THROUGH TRANS-MEDIA PSEUDO-RELEVANCE FEEDBACK AND DOCUMENT RERANKING - A multimedia information retrieval system includes a storage and an electronic processing device. The latter is configured to perform a process including: computing values of a pairwise similarity measure quantifying pairwise similarity of documents of a multimedia reference repository; storing the computed values in the storage; performing an initial information retrieval process respective to the multimedia reference repository to return a set of initial repository documents; and identifying a set of top ranked documents of the multimedia reference repository based at least on the stored computed values pertaining to the set of initial repository documents. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082616 | APPARATUS FOR MUSIC RETRIEVAL, METHOD FOR MUSIC RETRIEVAL, AND PROGRAM FOR MUSIC RETRIEVAL - An apparatus for retrieving music that matches with a user preference across a plurality of music is provided. The apparatus comprises a feature vector generating device for generating feature vectors of each of the music, a clustering device for clustering the music into a plurality of clusters according to the feature vectors, a music extraction device for extracting a predetermined number of music from each of the clusters, a music selection accepting device for accepting a selection of music by the user from the music, and a music retrieval device for calculating similarities between a feature vector of the selected music and feature vectors of each of the music, and retrieving music that have higher similarities to the selected music among the music. | 04-01-2010 |
20100100539 | IDENTIFYING GEOGRAPHIC-AREAS BASED ON CHANGE PATTERNS DETECTED FROM HIGH-RESOLUTION, REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY - A method, system, and medium are provided for identifying terrestrial objects that have changed in a certain manner. One embodiment of the method includes receiving a query that includes one or more inputs, which are related to 1) a first terrestrial object (“first object”) and 2) source change-detection information that describes change associated with the first object; applying the query to a dataset that includes indexed information that describes the imagery; based on the one or more inputs, receiving a query result by identifying a set of regions in the dataset that are respectively associated with change information that is similar to that of the source change-detection information; and presenting on a presentation device indications of at least a portion of the identified set of regions. | 04-22-2010 |
20100100540 | REVISING IMAGERY SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON USER FEEDBACK - A method, system, and medium are provided for revising a first set of search results related to high-resolution satellite imagery. One embodiment of the method includes receiving a query that seeks high-resolution, remotely sensed images of geographic areas that have changed consistent with a given change signature; returning indications of the geographic areas; and presenting a first set of images that corresponds to the indications; presenting a set of feedback of options in connection with each of the set of images, wherein the feedback options include one or more of a more-like-this option and a less-like-this option; such that a second set of images can be identified based on receiving input by way of the feedback options. | 04-22-2010 |
20100106719 | CONTEXT-SENSITIVE SEARCH - A method for performing a search based on a query term and a context document is described herein. The method involves receiving a search request comprising a query term and a context document, and identifying a target document of a plurality of documents based on a relationship of the context document with the target document and the query term, where the relationship of the context document with the target document is determined prior to receiving the search request. | 04-29-2010 |
20100106720 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A REMOTE PATTERN - For clearly identifying a product recorded in an image file provided by a client terminal, a method for identifying a remote pattern method is provided for preventing disputes between consumers and shopping websites. Such disputes are often caused when a conventional shopping website just searches products required by a consumer based on messages provided by the consumer. In the provided method, an image file of a required product of a consumer is identified by a customer service terminal for generating a plurality of keywords related to the required product. The keywords are then inputted into a database for searching. Detailed information about the required product is found according to search results. After the detailed information is examined by the customer service terminal, the examined detailed information is returned to the client at the client terminal. | 04-29-2010 |
20100114882 | CULTURALLY RELEVANT SEARCH RESULTS - Search results may be provided to a user. A search query may be received from the user. A query feature vector may be formed for the search query. The query feature vector may be compared with news feature vectors associated with documents related to current events. An augmented query feature vector may be formed based on results of the comparison of the query feature vector with the news feature vectors. The augmented query feature vector may be compared with feature vectors related to target documents. Search results that include target documents may be identified based on results of the comparison of the augmented query feature vector with the feature vectors related to the target documents. The user may be made able to perceive at least some of the identified search results. | 05-06-2010 |
20100121846 | FILTER BY EXAMPLE - The invention relates to a system ( | 05-13-2010 |
20100138412 | METHOD FOR SHOWING OBJECTS OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION BY SERIATION OF DISTANCE - A method for showing objects of geographic information by seriation of distance is disclosed. A central point on an electronic map provided by a website is appointed by an user. In a specific range around the central point, at least one target object required by an user is being searched. Every individual distance between the central point and the at least one searched target object is arranged in an order in accordance with seriation of distance. Finally, the arranged results are displayed in orders on a screen for a user to easily choose a best destination. | 06-03-2010 |
20100145937 | Interactive peer directory - A system is provided for locating peers having a desired expertise. User profile information is stored in a profiles database. A search engine indexes the profiles database and appends appropriate profile tags to this information. A peer relevancy algorithm searches for candidate peers among the indexed user profile information. Weights are assigned to candidate peers based on different categories of the indexed user profile information, and peer matches are selected based on the assigned weights. In order to provide matches that are most likely to accept a connection request, data is maintained as to which potential peers have a history of accepting requests to connect and which have a history of refusing to connect. Potential matches are biased to favor those that have a tendency to accept connection requests. Contact information of requester and recipients are not disclosed until the recipient accepts the requester's connection request. | 06-10-2010 |
20100169305 | INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM FOR ARCHIVING MULTIPLE DOCUMENT VERSIONS - An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are identified that predict the presence of other phrases in documents. Documents are the indexed according to their included phrases. Index data for multiple versions or instances of documents is also maintained. Each document instance is associated with a date range and relevance data derived from the document for the date range. | 07-01-2010 |
20100174709 | Methods For Searching Private Social Network Data - A method for searching a database that includes private social network data includes providing one or more databases including a plurality of database entries, a first portion of the database entries including private social network data and a second portion including non-social network data that is publicly accessible on the World Wide Web. The method further includes receiving a keyword search request from a search request user and searching the one or more databases or a keyword index thereof using one or more keywords and determining a hierarchy for the search result items. The method also includes displaying at least a portion of the search results items according to the hierarchy. And, determining whether the user has access rights to a particular subset of the private social network data and wherein if the user has access rights to the particular subset of private social network data, using at least a portion of the particular subset of social network data in the step of (i) searching the one or more databases, (ii) determining the hierarchy, and/or (iii) displaying the search result items. | 07-08-2010 |
20100174710 | MATCHING AND RANKING OF SPONSORED SEARCH LISTINGS INCORPORATING WEB SEARCH TECHNOLOGY AND WEB CONTENT - A system is disclosed for generating a search result list in response to a search request from a searcher using a computer network. A first database is maintained that includes a first plurality of search listings. A second database is maintained that includes documents having general web content. A search request is received from the searcher. A first set of search listings is identified from the first database having documents generating a match with the search request and a second set of search listings is identified from the second database having documents generating a match with the search request. A confidence score is determined for each listing from the first set of search listings wherein the confidence score is determined in accordance with a relevance of each listing when compared to the listings of the second set of search listings. The identified search listings from the first set of search listing are ordered in accordance, at least in part, with the confidence score for each search listing. | 07-08-2010 |
20100185611 | RE-RANKING SEARCH RESULTS FROM AN ENTERPRISE SYSTEM - A flexible and extensible architecture allows for secure searching across an enterprise. Such an architecture can provide a simple Internet-like search experience to users searching secure content inside (and outside) the enterprise. The architecture allows for the crawling and searching of a variety of sources across an enterprise, regardless of whether any of these sources conform to a conventional user role model. The architecture further allows for security, recency, or other attributes to be submitted at query time, for example, in order to re-rank query results from enterprise resources. The user query also can be transformed to provide for dynamic querying that provides for a more current result list than can be obtained for static queries. | 07-22-2010 |
20100191726 | System and Method for Modulating Search Relevancy Using Pointer Activity Monitoring - A method and system of modulating search result relevancy use various types of user browsing activities. In particular, a client assistant residing in a client computer monitors movements of a user controlled pointer in a web browser, e.g., when the pointer moves into a predefined region and when it moves out of the predefined region. A server then determines a relevancy value between an informational item associated with the predefined region and a search query according to the pointer hover period. When preparing a new search result responsive to a search query, the server re-orders identified informational items in accordance with their respective relevancy values such that more relevant items appear before less relevant ones. The server also uses the relevancy values to determine and/or adjust the content of an one-box result associated with a search query. | 07-29-2010 |
20100198821 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING AND USING AN ADAPTIVE THESAURUS - Methods and systems are provided for creating an adaptive thesaurus. A term pair including an index term and an expansion term is received. A recall gain, an expansion independence, and a semantic similarity of the term pair are calculated using a processor. Whether to store the term pair is determined based on the recall gain, the expansion independence, and the semantic similarity. The term pair is stored based on the determination. Methods and systems are provided for searching using an adaptive thesaurus. A search query including a query term is received. An expansion term stored in association with an index term matching the query term in the adaptive thesaurus is retrieved. Using a processor, the search query is expanded using the expansion term based on a recall gain, an expansion independence, and a semantic similarity. | 08-05-2010 |
20100198822 | METHODS AND TECHNIQUES FOR ADAPTIVE SEARCH - A method and apparatus for an adaptive search user interface is provided. An interface is provided that returns search results upon receiving each alphanumeric character of a search query term. Correlations of prefixes of alphanumeric characters and search results selected from previous searches are stored in a correlation matrix. Based upon the correlations in the correlation matrix, relevance rankings for search results with respect to the prefixes of alphanumeric characters are updated. Search results may be grouped based upon one or more common traits. Relevance rankings are also updated based upon the rate of change of selections recorded for a search result. | 08-05-2010 |
20100223262 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STORING, SEARCHING AND RETRIEVING INFORMATION BASED ON SEMISTRUCTURED AND DE-CENTRALIZED DATA SETS - A system for storage and methods for search and retrieval of information presentable as a plurality of tree-structured information objects of an arbitrary application domain are disclosed. The system comprises a distributed computer system consisting of computing devices, interconnected with each other by physical communication lines, and a connected logical storage network, every node of which is an active unit of storage (AUS), incorporating an information object, a program agent and a list of links of said AUS to a plurality of other AUS on the network, wherein the links form connections among the nodes of the logical storage network. Links of an AUS pointing at a plurality of other AUS are created based on a metric calculated taking into account the intrinsic structure of stored and retrieved information objects, and enabling determination and use of the degree of relevance between search information attributes and respective attributes of a search query. Methods for storing and retrieving information in the disclosed system are provided. The system and methods enable efficient storage, searching and retrieving information. | 09-02-2010 |
20100262602 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DERIVING A SCORE WITH WHICH ITEM LISTINGS ARE ORDERED WHEN PRESENTED IN SEARCH RESULTS - Methods and systems for analyzing, ordering and presenting item listings are described. In one example embodiment, a search query is processed to identify item listings satisfying the search query. Then, for each item listing that satisfies the search query, a ranking score is derived and assigned to the item listing. The ranking score is based in part on a relevance score, a listing quality score and a business rules score (or, adjustment factor). Finally, the item listings are ordered, based on their corresponding ranking score, and presented in order in a search results page. | 10-14-2010 |
20100262603 | SEARCH ENGINE METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISPLAYING RELEVANT TOPICS - The present invention provides search engine methods and systems for displaying relevant and timely topics. In an embodiment, a method for displaying topics related to a search constraint entered by a user includes receiving a search constraint; identifying a first preliminary set of topics related to the search constraint, wherein the first preliminary set of topics are representative of a sample set of general data items; identifying a second preliminary set of topics related to the search constraint, wherein the second preliminary set of topics is representative of a sample set of current event data items; identifying a set of display topics that is a subset of the first preliminary set of topics and the second preliminary set of topics; and displaying the set of display topics. In other embodiments, other systems and methods are provided. | 10-14-2010 |
20100268709 | SYSTEM, METHOD, OR APPARATUS FOR CALIBRATING A RELEVANCE SCORE - Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with calibrating one or more relevance scores are disclosed. | 10-21-2010 |
20100293159 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTING PHASES FROM TEXT - Systems and methods for extracting phrases from text are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a method may include preprocessing desired phrases into at least one phrase indexing data structure for efficient matching. The method may also include scanning text to construct a hash table including keys and corresponding entries. The method may also include locating suffix trie trees for each word in the hash table. The method may also include matching each position in the hash table against the suffix trie trees, and outputting phrases matched in the scanned text. | 11-18-2010 |
20100299325 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATION OF A CUSTOMIZED WEB PAGE BASED ON USER IDENTIFIERS - A system for generating a customized web page comprises an identifier generator and manager (IGM) for generating a plurality of identifiers from data collected respective of usage of information by a user over time and for providing an answer responsive to a query, wherein the answer is based on the plurality of identifiers; an auto-discovery and management unit for determining relevancy to the user of information retrieved from an information source, wherein the determination is based on answers received from the IGM; and a web page generator for generating a web page containing at least a snippet of the relevant information in a designated display area of the generated web page. | 11-25-2010 |
20100299326 | Apparatuses, Methods and Systems For A Forum Ferreting System - This disclosure details apparatuses, systems and methods for a forum ferreting system. Various implementations of the system may be configured to meet the needs of a variety of users. In one embodiment, the system may be configured to provide users with a variety of search options, including popularity and/or relevance. Users may also be provided with customized groupings or favorites via a customized interface. Such interfaces may allow users to apply search tools, save searches, apply filters, provide feedback, and/or the like. Additionally, in some embodiments, the forum ferreting system may facilitate contextual advertising. | 11-25-2010 |
20100306193 | Multi-media content identification using multi-level content signature correlation and fast similarity search - A method is presented for large media data base query and media entry identification based on multi-level similarity search and reference-query entry correlation. Media content fingerprinting detects unique features and generates discriminative descriptors and signatures used to form preliminary reference data base. The preliminary reference data base is processed and a subset-set of it is selected to form a final reference data base. To identify a media query a fast similarity search is performed first on the reference database resulting in a preliminary set of likely matching videos. For each preliminary likely matching video a further multi-level correlation is performed which includes iterative refinement, sub-sequence merging, and final result classification. | 12-02-2010 |
20110004592 | SEARCH SYSTEM, SEARCH METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A search system includes a scoring engine weight value database ( | 01-06-2011 |
20110016116 | WEB SEARCHING - A human or hand-labeled ranking of URL results for a search query is compared against actual click data for the respective query/URL pairs (e.g., which URLs were actually clicked on by users when the URLs were presented to users when the search query was run in the real world). The human ranking or ordering of the URL results (e.g., pre-existing relevance ranking) for the query can then be adjusted, if necessary, based upon the real world click data (e.g., click relevance ranking). The modified pre-existing relevance ranking can be used in providing future search results. | 01-20-2011 |
20110022590 | METHOD OF PERFORMING DATABASE SEARCH USING RELEVANCE FEEDBACK AND STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON FOR EXECUTING THE SAME - Provided are methods of performing a database search using relevance feedback, in which a ranking scheme is applied to a database system for efficient database search, and a recording medium having a program recorded thereon for executing the same. The method includes receiving relevance feedback for a first search result, deriving a relevance function based on the received relevance feedback, and applying the first search result to the relevance function and providing a second search result ordered according to a relevance level. Accordingly, an accurate relevance function can be derived from a small amount of feedback by using relevance feedback and a ranking scheme, such that an efficient database search can be achieved without a user reviewing all search results to obtain a desired result. | 01-27-2011 |
20110022591 | Pre-computed ranking using proximity terms - A method for searching the web comprising an off-line phase for generating a numerical score for at least one term within a document retrieved from the web, and an on-line phase comprising accessing the numerical score for the at least one term when the at least one term is used as a search term within a query. The numerical score is used to identify documents to include in a search result. | 01-27-2011 |
20110029513 | Method for Determining Document Relevance - The relevance of a document to a given word or phrase is determined by calculating a function of whether the word or phrase occurs in the document and whether each member of a set of words or phrases related to the given word or phrase occurs in the document. A phrases may be included in this set if, out of all the documents in a collection that contain all the words of the phrase, the proportion of documents containing the phrase is greater than a predetermined value. Document relevance can be used to search for a document. | 02-03-2011 |
20110035374 | SEGMENT SENSITIVE QUERY MATCHING OF DOCUMENTS - Exemplary methods and apparatuses are provided which may be used to provide or otherwise support segment sensitive query matching based on segmented portions of web pages and/or providing related information for use in information extraction and/or information retrieval systems. | 02-10-2011 |
20110040752 | USING CATEGORICAL METADATA TO RANK SEARCH RESULTS - A system that facilitates ranking search results returned by a search engine in response to receipt of a query is described herein. The system includes a receiver component that receives categorical metadata pertaining to an item and categorical metadata pertaining to the query and a computation component that computes at least one of a document feature pertaining to the item, a query feature pertaining to the query, or a document-query feature pertaining to the item and the query based at least in part upon one or more of the categorical metadata pertaining to the item or the categorical metadata pertaining to the query. The system also includes a ranker component that selectively places the item in a particular location in a sequence of items based at least in part upon the at least one of the document feature, the query feature, or the document-query feature. | 02-17-2011 |
20110055208 | Personalized plan development based on one or more reported aspects' association with one or more source users - A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: providing one or more relevant reported aspects associated with one or more source users that are relevant to achieving one or more target outcomes, the providing of the one or more relevant reported aspects being based, at least in part, on the one or more relevant reported aspects' association with the one or more source users; and developing one or more personalized plans designed to facilitate an end user to achieve the one or more target outcomes when one or more emulatable aspects indicated by the one or more personalized plans are emulated, the development of the one or more personalized plans being based, at least in part, on the providing In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 03-03-2011 |
20110066612 | Method, System, and Apparatus for Delivering Query Results from an Electronic Document Collection - A method, system, and article are provided for efficiently and effectively searching an electronic document collection. Each of the documents in the collection is pre-divided into sub-sections. One or more profiles are created, each including a selection of at least one of the sections of the documents in the collection. In addition, a weight is assigned to each of the selected sections in the profile. Based upon the parameters of a query and selection of a profile, select sub-sections of each document are employed to compare query data to the underlying document collection. A compilation of documents is created with data matching the query data, and a relevancy score is computed for each document in the compilation. The relevancy score is then leveraged to sort the documents in a manner to convey relevancy to the query submission. | 03-17-2011 |
20110082859 | 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. | 04-07-2011 |
20110082860 | Search Method, Apparatus and System - The present disclosure describes a search method, a search apparatus and a search system. The method includes: a data rewriting system that obtains, from a database, one or more search term candidates that are relevant to a present search term. The data rewriting system retrieves properties of the present search term and the one or more search term candidates, where the properties describe respective matching results of the present search term and the one or more search term candidates. Based on the matching results, the data rewriting system determines whether or not the present search term needs to be rewritten, and rewrites the present search term based on the matching results to provide a rewritten present search term if it is determined that the present search term needs to be rewritten. A search engine performs a search based on the rewritten present search term. The disclosed method, apparatus and system avoid the approach of conducting a search based on fixed rules after the present search term is rewritten, thus reducing the probability of having ambiguity in the search process and improving the degree of search accuracy. | 04-07-2011 |
20110087659 | DOCUMENT RELEVANCE DETERMINING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Disclosed is a method and computer program product of determining the relevance of at least a part of an electronic document comprising a plurality of terms distributed over a plurality of regions of said document, comprising displaying the electronic document to a user; determining the gaze characteristics of the person on a region of the electronic document; assigning a relevance score to an individual term in said region based on said characteristics; and generating a term relevance label for said electronic document, said term relevance label comprising relevance scores for the respective individual terms in said document The relevance scores may also be used to define a user profile for the user that can aid in retrieving future documents of relevance to the user. | 04-14-2011 |
20110087660 | SCORING RELEVANCE OF A DOCUMENT BASED ON IMAGE TEXT - A method and system for determining relevance of a document having text and images to a text string is provided. A scoring system identifies image text associated with an image of the document. The scoring system calculates an image score indicating relevance of the image text to the text string. The image score may be used in many applications, such as searching, summary generation, and document classification, image search, and image classification. | 04-14-2011 |
20110106795 | Methods for granting access to resources modifiable by users in a computer environment, and resources structured therefore - The invention concerns a method for accessing a resource in a computer environment, the resource comprising a set of objects. The invention is characterized in that the computer environment is adapted to store in association with at least one object of said resource at least one modified object, in that said computer environment comprises means for storing in association with such an object information concerning degree of elaboration, and in that it includes the following steps: identifying, for each object of the resource to which corresponds at least one modified object, based on data concerning degree of elaboration, at least one most elaborated version of said object; assembling the objects thus identified for display in the resource. The invention also concerns other methods for accessing to resources as well as resources structured therefor. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106796 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDATION OF INTERESTING WEB PAGES BASED ON USER BROWSING ACTIONS - Recommended Web sites are presented in response to a user visit to a Web site, a history of previous user visits to Web sites, or a user-initiated search query. The Web sites that are recommended are those deemed most similar to the subject Web site or to the results of the search query, as appropriate. Information regarding Web sites is retrieved from locations within a distributed system as identified by a distributed hash table and similarity assessments between the subject Web site or query responses and those Web pages may be made according to that information, as periodically updated. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106797 | DOCUMENT RELEVANCY OPERATOR - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with document relevancy are described. One example method includes receiving one or more query terms from a query on stored documents. A relevancy operator is run on a document clump that applies more than one type of matching operation between the query terms and the document clump in a single pass. The relevancy operator may also apply at least one heuristic on the document clump in a single pass. A document's relevancy to the query is predicted based, at least in part, on an output of the relevancy operator. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106798 | Search Result Enhancement Through Image Duplicate Detection - Systems, methods, and computer media for enhancing user search query results are provided. Upon receiving a user search query, relevant images are identified. Duplicate image information for the relevant images is accessed in an index. The index includes information extracted from individual images or duplicates and information aggregated according to groups comprised of images and duplicates of the images. The images identified as relevant to the user query are ranked based at least in part on the information accessed in the index. | 05-05-2011 |
20110119264 | RANKING EXPERT RESPONSES AND FINDING EXPERTS BASED ON RANK - In a computerized social network, expert and user chat sessions are stored and rated probabilistically. Later user requests for information are met with an expert ranking, based on a balance of similarities between expert profile and questions; similarity between expert profile and prior chat sessions, and dynamically updated chat session ratings. New sessions can be rated automatically with reference to keywords distilled from past sessions responsive to user ratings—and based on session length. | 05-19-2011 |
20110125737 | Type Projection Query Of An Instance Space - Technologies are described herein for applying type projection queries to instance space graphs. Through the utilization of the technologies and concepts presented herein, a type projection may be used to describe the hierarchy of instance types connected by relationships within an instance space graph. A type projection query based on the type projection may be dynamically generated to query instances and relationships within the instance store. Filter criteria for the query can be expressed using a path notation. Results from of the type projection query may be provided as graphs of instances and relationships which are subgraphs of the queried instance space graph. Programmatic traversal of the resultant subgraph can navigate to each instance node within the result space. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125738 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING SECONDARY SEARCH ACTIONS BASED ON PRIMARY SEARCH RESULT ATTRIBUTES - A method and system are provided for enhancing an initial set of data values generated by a query of one or more data stores. File parameters and file types are retrieved from the initial query and used to generate a second set of searches, actions, and information related to the initial set of data values. The results from the initial query and the secondary query are displayed on a presentation device. | 05-26-2011 |
20110131205 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IDENTIFY CONTEXT-DEPENDENT TERM IMPORTANCE OF QUERIES FOR PREDICTING RELEVANT SEARCH ADVERTISEMENTS - An improved system and method for identifying context-dependent term importance of queries is provided. A query term importance model is learned using supervised learning of context-dependent term importance for queries and is then applied for advertisement prediction using term importance weights of query terms as query features. For instance, a query term importance model for query rewriting may predict rewritten queries that match a query with term importance weights assigned as query features. Or a query term importance model for advertisement prediction may predict relevant advertisements for a query with term importance weights assigned as query features. In an embodiment, a sponsored advertisement selection engine selects sponsored advertisements scored by a query term importance engine that applies a query term importance model using term importance weights as query features and inverse document frequency weights as advertisement features to assign a relevance score. | 06-02-2011 |
20110145230 | Needs-based mapping and processing engine - A mechanism is disclosed that dramatically minimizes the time it takes to gather needs, dramatically minimizes the expense it takes to gather those needs, and ensures those statements are formulated in manner that comply with a set of rules designed to ensure the right inputs are used in downstream strategy formulation, marketing, product development, and related company workflows. In addition, the mechanism may or may not minimize the time it takes for a company to acquire the capability to uncover these needs statements. | 06-16-2011 |
20110145231 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR RANKING OF EMPLOYMENT CANDIDATES ACCORDING TO EXTERNAL DATABASES - A method for automatically calculating a job applicant's relevance rating. The method includes retrieving the new applicant's data from data previously stored on an applicants' search engine database and retrieving obsolescence curve data from an obsolescence curve database containing graphic information. The method also includes calculating a new applicant's relevance or recalculating the relevance of an already stored applicant from said obsolescence curve data. Finally, the method further includes changing the rating for an already stored applicant according to the new value and saving the new rating to the applicants' search engine database, wherein relevance refers to the probability that the applicant is looking for a job. | 06-16-2011 |
20110145232 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY AND INTERACTIVELY SEARCHING MEDIA DATA - The disclosed subject matter is directed to systems and methods for searching a database of media content wherein the user can dynamically and interactively perform searches and navigate search results. One or more search anchors are received, and at least one of the search anchors is associated with an anchor cell on a navigation map. One or more documents assigned to at least one cell on the navigation map can be determined, and the cells are populated with search results based at least in part on the search anchors. At least one of the documents is then displayed to a user. | 06-16-2011 |
20110145233 | User Interface Methods And Systems For Selecting And Presenting Content Based On User Navigation And Selection Actions Associated With The Content - A user-interface method of selecting and presenting a collection of content items based on user navigation and selection actions associated with the content is provided. The method includes associating a relevance weight on a per user basis with content items to indicate a relative measure of likelihood that the user desires the content item. The method includes receiving a user's navigation and selections actions for identifying desired content items, and in response, adjusting the associated relevance weight of the selected content item and group of content items containing the selected item. The method includes, in response to subsequent user input, selecting and presenting a subset of content items and content groups to the user ordered by the adjusted associated relevance weights assigned to the content items and content groups. | 06-16-2011 |
20110145234 | SEARCH METHOD AND SYSTEM - A search method provides a search client user with personalized search that may provide related search results according to the interest model of the search client user. The search method includes: receiving a search request from a search client, where the search request includes one or more search key words; extracting an interest model of a user according to the personalized data of the user; distributing the one or more search key words and the interest model to one or more member search devices; receiving search results and corresponding ranking scores of the search results from the one or more member search devices, where the ranking scores are calculated according to the interest model; and sorting the search results according to the ranking scores, obtaining final search results, and returning the final search results to the search client. A search system is also provided. With the present invention, the search results are more personalized, and the search service may be promoted more conveniently. | 06-16-2011 |
20110161317 | DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL SYSTEM - A document retrieval system includes a document server and mobile phones. A user may enter search criteria on a search criteria input screen of the mobile phone and transmit them to the document server through a certain network, e.g. the Internet. The document server retrieves documents according to the search criteria and refers to a search record database to determine whether the retrieved documents have ever been searched for and flagged with marks. The document server weights the respective documents on the basis of the marks tagged to the document or those elements that match the search criteria, and metadata included in the marks. Depending on the weight, the documents are listed in the order from the most relevant to or useful for the user when sent back as a search result to the mobile phone. | 06-30-2011 |
20110167061 | PROVIDING SUGGESTIONS OF RELATED VIDEOS - Methods are provided for identifying media files that are related to a user-selected media file. Initially, a first set of media files that have previously been determined to be related to the selected media file is identified. It is determined that the number of media files in the first set of media files does not exceed a minimum number. A query is constructed based on the title or description of the selected media file to locate more related media files. A media database is searched and the results are combined with the first set of media files to be displayed. | 07-07-2011 |
20110167062 | DOCUMENT SEARCH APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME, AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - Portions within a document that relate to a plurality of keywords are found. Specifically, a plurality of keywords are input and paragraphs containing at least two of the keywords among the input plurality of keywords are found from a document. An overall score of scores is calculated for every paragraph in such a manner that the shorter the space between keywords contained in a paragraph, the higher the score. The paragraphs are displayed in order of decreasing overall score. | 07-07-2011 |
20110179024 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RANKING DOCUMENTS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for ranking documents. An exemplary method includes receiving a plurality of queries from a user that are related to a search topic. The queries are compared to a plurality of documents stored in a database to identify candidate documents that match one or more of the queries. The number of matching queries is determined for the candidate documents. The candidate documents are ranked, using a computer processor, for relevance to the search topic based at least on the number of matching queries for each respective candidate document. | 07-21-2011 |
20110179025 | SOCIAL AND CONTEXTUAL SEARCHING FOR ENTERPRISE BUSINESS APPLICATIONS - A process for performing a search of data includes creating a search index of a data base system comprising data associated with an enterprise business application (e.g., a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application) and user information associated with a plurality of users of the enterprise business application. The process searches the database system via the search index based on a received search query from a first user of the plurality of users, and determines the relevancy of identified search results to the first user based on one or more attributes of the first user (e.g., an algorithm that takes into account user profile information, social network information, strength of contact or connection to other users, and so on). The process further includes communicating at least a portion of the search results to the first user for display. | 07-21-2011 |
20110179026 | Related Concept Selection Using Semantic and Contextual Relationships - A system and method for ranking results derived from various analytical processes for a concept selector is disclosed. The method ranks the concepts extracted for information input to a concept selector by semantic mapping and contextual mapping techniques. Information is input to a concept selector. The concept selector may then analyze the input information to select list of matched synonyms, generate concept relationship maps, concept database maps for the matched concepts from its databases. In addition, content provided from the web page may also be analyzed by the concept selector for mapping the concepts. Further, obtained list of matched terms, keywords and concepts are sent to the ranking module for ranking the results. The ranking module may rank the results obtained based on pre-defined filtering techniques such as semantic rules, business rules and so on. The ranked results are output by the concept selector. | 07-21-2011 |
20110184946 | APPLYING SYNONYMS TO UNIFY TEXT SEARCH WITH FACETED BROWSING CLASSIFICATION - The invention provides a method and system for returning search results based on text and associated synonyms. The system including an input module configured for receiving a text search term. A search module is configured for searching index documents with the text search term to return matched index documents, and for searching synonym index entries to return classifications for synonym expansion for expanding the search for index documents. An analyzer module is configured for obtaining tokens for the text search term from the synonym index entries for determining matched synonym index entries. The search module is further configured for obtaining assigned synonym matching strength information of the matched synonym index entries in a search results list, and for sorting the search results list based on a confidence score to form a sorted search results list. An output module for presenting the sorted search result list on an interface module. | 07-28-2011 |
20110191335 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING LEGAL RESEARCH USING CLUSTERING ANALYTICS - Disclosed herein are various exemplary systems and methods for conducting legal research using clustering analytics. A system for building relationships between passages, the system comprising a passage generation module configured to generate passages from one or more case law documents, an annotation module configured to annotate the passages based on one or more attributes, and a clustering module configured to build relationship clusters between the passages based on the one or more attributes. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191336 | CONTEXTUAL IMAGE SEARCH - Techniques for image search using contextual information related to a user query are described. A user query including at least one of textual data or image data from a collection of data displayed by a computing device is received from a user. At least one other subset of data selected from the collection of data is received as contextual information that is related to and different from the user query. Data files such as image files are retrieved and ranked based on the user query to provide a pre-ranked set of data files. The pre-ranked data files are then ranked based on the contextual information to provide a re-ranked set of data files to be displayed to the user. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191337 | Providing User Input Suggestions for Conflicting Data Using Rank Determinations - One embodiment includes: receiving profile data including first and second data changes corresponding to first and second client devices of a user, wherein the first and second data changes are conflicting; determining, via the first client device, a first rank for the first data change and a second rank for the second data change; and providing, via the first client device, a plurality of suggestions in response to a partial entry provided by the user, wherein the first plurality of suggestions is provided in a ranked order based on the first and second ranks | 08-04-2011 |
20110196862 | OUTLINE-BASED COMPOSITION AND SEARCH OF PRESENTATION MATERIAL - A method, system and computer program product for facilitating creation of a presentation by a user. In one embodiment, an input unit is configured to receive a target outline for a target presentation. An outline unit is configured to generate context-sensitive queries based, in part, on the hierarchical relationships of the outline topics in the target presentation. A search unit is configured to search a presentation repository using the context-sensitive queries for matching presentation slides that are relevant to the outline topics of the target presentation. An output unit is configured to present the matching presentation slides for evaluation by the user. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196863 | TAGGED FAVORITES FROM SOCIAL NETWORK SITE FOR USE IN SEARCH REQUEST ON A SEPARATE SITE - A tag is received from a member of a social network site. The tag is associated with a favorite of the member. Tag data obtained from the tag is provided to a second site that hosts a searching service. The second site determines the relevancy of the tag data relative to a new search request received by a user on the second site. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196864 | APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A VISUAL QUERY BUILDER - The APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A VISUAL QUERY BUILDER (“VQB”) take user gesture inputs on displayed objects, and transform them via VQB components into search results display objects arranged by search relevance in proximity to the displayed objects. In one embodiment, the VQB obtains an object-manipulating gesture input, and correlates the object-manipulating gesture input to a display object. The VQB then classifies the object-manipulating gesture input as a specified type of search request. The VQB generates a search query according to the specified type of search request using metadata associated with the display object, and provides the search query to search engine(s) and/or database(s). The VQB obtains, in response to providing the search query, search result display objects and associated search result display object relevance values. The VQB displays the search result display objects arranged in proximity to the display object such that search result display objects are arranged according to their associated search result display object relevance values. | 08-11-2011 |
20110202527 | DISTANCE-SPACE EMBEDDING FOR MULTI-DESCRIPTOR MATCHING AND RETRIEVAL - A process includes receiving an archive of video data comprising a plurality of archive descriptor types, and applying a query to the archive. The query includes a number of N query descriptor types for a query object. The process further includes determining a difference between each query descriptor type and corresponding descriptor types of the archive, and storing each difference as a point in an N dimensional space. The process further includes identifying an archive object that is similar to the query object as a function of proximities of the differences to an origin of the N dimensional space. | 08-18-2011 |
20110208731 | AUTOMATED SEMANTIC DOMAIN SPINNING TOOLS - Systems and methods of the present invention provide for the spinning and appraisal of a domain name. A list of keywords may be extracted from a domain name entered into a user interface on a client. These keywords may be compared to potential matches in a database and a result set may be compiled and displayed to the user. The client may also display a certified domain name appraisal using a plurality of logical groupings within a domain name appraisal process. This appraisal process may also include a multiplier derived from comparisons of registration statistics for various top level domains. | 08-25-2011 |
20110208732 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ORGANIZING DATA ITEMS - Systems, methods, and software for organizing data are described. An organizational method is selected from one or more predetermined organizational methods, specified by a parameter, or determined from information about the data items. Data items are sorted based on the organizational method. | 08-25-2011 |
20110208733 | GRAPHICALLY SEARCHING AND DISPLAYING DATA - Embodiments of the present invention provide a multifaceted tool (e.g., graphical representation/object) for searching and displaying data (e.g., search results). Specifically, aspects of the present invention build on “seed” terms to find and display related words, presenting them in a graduated manner by closeness to the seed. The tool allows a user to select variable weights which indicate the desired degree of closeness to the seed word/idea, or it may be randomly generated. Additionally, this tool may be used to create brainstorm teams with a desired level of variance from a target subject. In a typical embodiment, the a search or seed term and corresponding results are displayed in a hub and spoke-like graphical representation whereby the seed term is positioned in a center window of the graphic, and results are displayed in branches that extend radially from the center. Each branch can correspond to a different information source from which the corresponding results were obtained. | 08-25-2011 |
20110208734 | SYSTEM FOR REQUIREMENT IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS BASED ON CAPABILITY MODE STRUCTURE - A textual analysis system is configured to compare textual content of textual statements. The textual analysis system is configured to score the textual content of a first textual statement and a second textual statement. Based on the score, the textual analysis system may determine a level of correspondence between the first textual statement and the second textual statement. The textual analysis system is configured to generate an interactive visual representation of the correspondence levels between the first statement and the second statement. The visual representation may be transmitted to a display. | 08-25-2011 |
20110218993 | SEMANTIC PAGE ANALYSIS FOR PRIORITIZING CONCEPTS - Embodiments disclose a method of obtaining relevancy scores for concepts found on a page of content. Methods disclosed rely on connectivity of concepts found in a page in relation to connectivity of the same concepts with other concepts in general, and the semantic relationships between the concepts found on a page to obtain relevancy of concepts. | 09-08-2011 |
20110225152 | CONSTRUCTING A SEARCH-RESULT CAPTION - The present invention is related to constructing a search-result caption that represents content of a search result (e.g., webpage). Information that is extracted from the webpage and/or other webpages is categorized and ranked based on a perceived relevance to a user context. Extracted information is then compared for inclusion in the search-result caption in order to provide a caption that accurately reflects content of the webpage and that is relevant to a context of the user | 09-15-2011 |
20110238661 | Information processing device, content displaying method, and computer program - An image processing device may comprise a display control unit. The display control unit may control display on a display screen, around a search term, of a search result obtained from searching using the search term and at least one term related to the search term. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238662 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING A WIDE AREA NETWORK - A method and system for searching a wide area network that enables users to find the information they seek more quickly and more easily than prior art search engines are disclosed. The method employs various innovative processes that can be included separately or in combination in different embodiments of the invention to improve searching on a wide area network. These processes include a process for making use of a user's prior search queries for query definition; a process for similarly making use of prior search queries by other users; a process for expanding and clarifying the meaning of queries; a process for including paid and other preferred results in an overall query result; a process for using user evaluation data from previous search query results to identify results that should be included or removed from a current result; a process for executing the selected search query, or set of queries, on one or more search engines, collecting the search results and combining the search results; a process for removing subordinate pages from a search result; a process for testing Web pages that appear on a search result, and removing or flagging pages which are unresponsive or slow to respond; a process for ranking search results by applying a set of ranking factors; a pre-caching process enabling faster viewing of search result; a process for providing links to a set of related Webrooms; a process for providing a set of Web maps for Web pages identified in the search results; and a process for integrating user evaluation of the content and usefulness of the Web pages provided by a search and other user data for system use in enhancing search effectiveness. | 09-29-2011 |
20110246458 | AUTOMATED UNIT FINDING FOR NUMERIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL - The present invention is related to the task of retrieving numeric information in response to a textual keyword-based query by automatically associating a unit to the type of data being retrieved. An information retrieval system is presented which suggests a unit for data exploration by leveraging the local environment of numeric data across the corpus. This local environment is parsed, including through natural language processing and proximity-based techniques, to determine units relevant to particular keyword phrases. The system also relies on knowledge of semantically and scientifically related units to optimize their binning for suggested unit scoring. | 10-06-2011 |
20110246459 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING METADATA TAG RELEVANCE RATINGS FOR COHESIVENESS - A content item may be associated with metadata comprising one or more tags. A user may indicate a relevance rating associated with a tag. The relevance rating may indicate whether the user feels the tag is relevant to the associated content item. Using a plurality of user-provided relevance ratings, a tag relevance model may be established. A tag relevance model may comprise a weighted or un-weighted average and/or median relevance rating of the tag and/or a cohesiveness of the of the relevance ratings. Rating cohesiveness may be used to identify controversial tags. Tag relevance information may be used to order search results. Tag ratings may also be used to aggregate users into groups comprising users having a similar point of view relative to one or more tag ratings. In addition, users may be grouped according to content access and/or tags rated regardless of the relevance rating applied. | 10-06-2011 |
20110252027 | System And Method For Recommending Interesting Content In An Information Stream - A system and method for recommending interesting content is provided. A content profile including a vector of words extracted from messages associated with a user is obtained. One or more content pointer profiles each including a vector of words associated with a content pointer located within one or more messages are obtained. The content profile is compared with each of the content pointer profiles. A relevance score is determined for that content pointer by calculating a similarity between the user words and the content pointer words. The content pointers are ranked based on the relevance score. A threshold is applied to select the content pointers and those content pointers that satisfy the threshold are selected as the content pointers most relevant to the user. | 10-13-2011 |
20110252028 | CONSOLIDATED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL RESULTS - Systems and methods are disclosed for consolidating information retrieval results. According to some embodiments of the invention, a computer system can be used to retrieve and rank results in a first result set, in response to a query. The computer system can then perform a more in-depth comparison of the results with the query to determine a more complete correlation of the data in a result with the terms in the query. Each result can then be scored according to its correlation with the search query, and results that do not meet minimum threshold score can be dropped, the remaining results comprising a second result set. Results in the second result set can then be compared with each other to determine whether they contain information regarding a single object or entity, in which case the records are consolidated and redundant data is removed. The computer system can then present the consolidated result on a display. | 10-13-2011 |
20110252029 | Providing History And Transaction Volume Information Of A Content Source To Users - A computer-implemented system and method for providing a legitimacy rating of a content source are provided. A request for a document is received. An electronic document associated with a content source is passed by a document provider in response to the request. A legitimacy rating of the content source is passed. Examples of legitimacy rating information include, for example, a history rating of the content source based on the length of time the document provider has published documents associated with the content source and a transaction volume rating of the content source based on the number of electronic documents associated with the content source that are passed by the document provider. | 10-13-2011 |
20110258187 | Relevance-Based Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Collection - In certain embodiments, a method for relevance-based open source intelligence (OSINT) collection includes accessing a request for information, determining a first data source associated with the request, and accessing a first data set collected from the first data source by a data collection component. The method further includes applying natural language processing to the first data set to generate a processed first data set and determining an aggregate relevance score associated with the first data source. The aggregate relevance is determined by determining a number of individual relevance scores associated with the first data source and aggregating the individual relevance scores. Each individual relevance score is determined based on a comparison of the processed first data set and a corresponding relevance criterion of a number of relevance criteria. The method further includes storing the aggregate relevance score associated with the first data source. | 10-20-2011 |
20110264655 | LOCATION CONTEXT MINING - Concepts and technologies are described herein for mining location contexts within document text. Through an implementation of the concepts and technologies presented herein, functionality can be provided for location context mining within articles, websites, travelogues, or other such documents. A location context is a concept associated with a specific location. For example, the contexts “beach” and “hula” are associated with Hawaii. Similarly, “glacier” and “polar bear” are contexts associated with Alaska. Location context mining can automatically discover locations and location contexts by mining information from a set of documents. User interfaces to support queries of the mined information are also presented herein. | 10-27-2011 |
20110264656 | CONTEXT-BASED SERVICES - Concepts and technologies are described herein for providing context-based services. In one embodiment, context-based output is provided. The context-based output can include context-based search results for a query. Contextual information can be used to improve access to real-time, social, and other content by enabling a search engine to better understand and/or to supplement queries based upon the context within which the query is received. The contextual information can include, but are not limited to, searches and content associated with the searcher, one or more locations associated with the searcher, the time of day at which a query is received, the device from which a query is received, an application running at the device from which the query is received, the capabilities of the device from which the query is received, and other variables. The contextual information can be used to manipulate the search query, the search results, the presentation of the search results, and/or the content surrounding the search results such as, for example, advertising, links, graphics, and other content. | 10-27-2011 |
20110264657 | System and Method of Controlling Interactive Communication Services by Responding to User Query with Relevant Information from Content Specific Database - An electronic communication system is controlled by a content service provider to return relevant information from a content specific database in response to a user query. The content service provider compiles a plurality of content specific databases, each dedicated to a category of information of interest to the user. The user registers a user profile with the content service provider. A query, including the selected content specific database, is transmitted from the user to the content service provider. The selected content specific database is searched for the first level query within context of the user profile. A menu of matches is generated from the content specific database for the first level query. The menu is organized by relevance scores assigned to the matches based on correspondence to the first level query. The menu is transmitted from the content service provider through the electronic communication network to the user. | 10-27-2011 |
20110264658 | WEB OBJECT RETRIEVAL BASED ON A LANGUAGE MODEL - A method and system is provided for determining relevance of an object to a term based on a language model. The relevance system provides records extracted from web pages that relate to the object. To determine the relevance of the object to a term, the relevance system first determines, for each record of the object, a probability of generating that term using a language model of the record of that object. The relevance system then calculates the relevance of the object to the term by combining the probabilities. The relevance system may also weight the probabilities based on the accuracy or reliability of the extracted information for each data source. | 10-27-2011 |
20110264659 | TRAINING A RANKING FUNCTION USING PROPAGATED DOCUMENT RELEVANCE - A method and system for propagating the relevance of labeled documents to a query to unlabeled documents is provided. The propagation system provides training data that includes queries, documents labeled with their relevance to the queries, and unlabeled documents. The propagation system then calculates the similarity between pairs of documents in the training data. The propagation system then propagates the relevance of the labeled documents to similar, but unlabeled, documents. The propagation system may iteratively propagate labels of the documents until the labels converge on a solution. The training data with the propagated relevances can then be used to train a ranking function. | 10-27-2011 |
20110270828 | PROVIDING SEARCH RESULTS IN RESPONSE TO A SEARCH QUERY - A method for providing search results in response to a search query is provided. The method includes receiving the search query from a user and generating a plurality of results in response to the search query. The plurality of results may be ranked according to an original relevancy score. The method further includes generating a click relevancy score for each of the plurality of results and re-ranking the plurality of results according to the click relevancy score. | 11-03-2011 |
20110270829 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR INFORMATION SORTING AND RETRIEVAL USING A LANGUAGE-MODELING KERNAL FUNCTION - Various embodiments provide a system, method, and computer program product for sorting and/or selectively retrieving a plurality of documents in response to a user query. More particularly, embodiments are provided that convert each document into a corresponding document language model and convert the user query into a corresponding query language model. The language models are used to define a vector space having dimensions corresponding to terms in the documents and in the user query. The language models are mapped in the vector space. Each of the documents is then ranked, wherein the ranking is based at least in part on a position of the mapped language models in the vector space, so as to determine a relative relevance of each of the plurality of documents to the user query. | 11-03-2011 |
20110276567 | RECOMMENDING A MEDIA ITEM BY USING AUDIO CONTENT FROM A SEED MEDIA ITEM - A method and a system are provided for recommending a media item (e.g., movie and/or television program). In one example, the system receives a seed media item (e.g., seed movie and/or seed television program). A seed media item is an audio-visual recording that is identified as being of interest to a user. The system recognizes one or more recognized audio tracks (e.g., audio tracks and/or songs) from the seed media item. A recognized audio track is an audio recording that is contained in the seed media item. The system retrieves audio track metadata associated with at least one of the recognized audio tracks from the seed media item. Audio track metadata are data that describes an audio recording. The system recommends one or more recommended media items based on the audio track metadata. A recommended media item is an audio-visual recording (e.g., movie and/or television program). | 11-10-2011 |
20110276568 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RANKING CONTENT AND APPLICATIONS THROUGH HUMAN ASSISTANCE - Embodiments of a system and method are provided for ranking the contents of one or more documents, applications, sound or visual media through human assistance. The system comprises one or more search engines configured to provide one or more documents, applications, sound or visual media based on a search query sent by a user. Further, the system comprises a client application configured to capture the query sent by the user and the keyword tags provided by the documents, applications, sound or visual media author. The client application monitors one or more interactions of the user with the one or more documents, applications, sound or visual media for one or more events and provides a relevance measure to the one or more documents, applications, sound or visual media based on the captured query or tags, and the one or more events. | 11-10-2011 |
20110289080 | Search Results Summarized with Tokens - In one embodiment, a first computing device accesses a first search query issued by a user and one or more first documents identified in response to the first search query; determines a first set of tokens for each of the first documents; and transmits the first documents and their associated first sets of tokens to a second computing device associated with the user for display to the user, wherein: each of the first documents is displayed together with its associated first set of tokens; and the tokens of each of the first sets of tokens are visually distinguished based on the concepts they represent and their levels of relevance with respect to the first document associated with the first set of tokens. | 11-24-2011 |
20110289081 | RESPONSE RELEVANCE DETERMINATION FOR A COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION SEARCH AND INDEXING METHOD, SOFTWARE AND DEVICE - In a computer implemented method, a plurality of Boolean expressions are stored, and one of the plurality of Boolean expressions is associated with each of a plurality of possible responses. Each of the plurality of Boolean expressions identifies at least one condition to be satisfied by a text query, to which its associated one of the plurality of responses is to be provided. In response to a provided query a response is returned. Text of the provided query is compared to the text of a returned response to determine a measure of relevance of the returned response. | 11-24-2011 |
20110295851 | REAL-TIME ANNOTATION AND ENRICHMENT OF CAPTURED VIDEO - An annotation suggestion platform is described herein. The annotation suggestion platform may comprise a client and a server, where the client captures a media object and sends the captured object to the server, and the server provides a list of suggested annotations for a user to associate with the captured media object. The user may then select which of the suggested metadata is to be associated or stored with the captured media. In this way, a user may more easily associate metadata with a media object, facilitating the media object's search and retrieval. The server may also provide web page links related to the captured media object. A user interface for the annotation suggestion platform is also described herein, as are optimizations including indexing and tag propagation. | 12-01-2011 |
20110295852 | FEDERATED IMPLICIT SEARCH - A resource selection system is described for assisting a user in performing a task that includes multiple actions. At each stage of the task, the system presents a set resources from which the user may select to perform a subsequent action in the task. The system implicitly selects the set of resources based on context information that identifies the user's current informational needs. For example, the context information may be derived from textual information that is being presented on a user device, which the user is presumed to be viewing at the current time. In one implementation, the system selects the set of resources by computing language models for respective domains and respective entities. The system uses the language models to determine the relevance of the context information to each of the domains. The system then selects resources associated with domains that have been assessed as relevant. | 12-01-2011 |
20110307479 | Automatic Extraction of Structured Web Content - Described is extracting structured information from web pages for use in directly answering queries with data items from the structured data. Users' post-search browsing behaviors (search trails) are treated as implicit labels as to the relevance between web content and user queries, and are used to determine wrappers for extracting structured information. In one implementation, a system identifies websites from web search logs, builds wrappers from users' search trails, filters out bad wrappers (from inconsistent user clicks), and combines structured information from different web sites, e.g., for each query. | 12-15-2011 |
20110307480 | PROVIDING RELEVANT INFORMATION BASED ON DATA SPACE ACTIVITY ITEMS - Various embodiments of systems and methods for providing relevant information based on data space activity items are described herein. Data space activity items of a user are identified while the user is working through an application. Several context elements relevant to each data space activity item are then determined. Content locations are searched to find content items relevant to the context elements. The content items are then ranked to determine relevant information. The relevant information can be accessed by the user when required. | 12-15-2011 |
20110307481 | INCORPORATING BROWSER-BASED FIND FUNCTIONALITY INTO CUSTOMIZED WEBPAGE DISPLAYS - A computer implemented method, system and/or computer program product dynamically display ancillary content on a webpage. A text entry is detected as an input to a find engine that locates and highlights the text entry within a main body of a webpage being displayed on a computer. A scope of the text entry is determined based on the textual context of the text entry and the type of webpage being displayed. An in-place adjustment is then utilized to automatically retrieve and display ancillary content on the webpage based on the textual context of the text entry and the type of webpage being displayed without refreshing the main body of the webpage. | 12-15-2011 |
20110314010 | KEYWORD TO QUERY PREDICATE MAPS FOR QUERY TRANSLATION - A query comprising a set of keywords may be applied to a data set having various attributes, but it may be difficult to determine the query predicates intended for each keyword (e.g., the attributes targeted by each keyword, and the values of those attributes satisfying the keyword.) The meaning of a keyword of interest may be inferred from a set of query pairs, comprising a background query (comprising a set of keywords excluding the keyword of interest) and a foreground query (comprising the same set of keywords but also including the keyword of interest.) Differences in the query results for the foreground query and the background query of many query pairs may identify a query predicate intended by the keyword and a confidence score. These results may be associated with the keyword in a keyword map, useful for translating queries into query predicates that may yield relevant query results. | 12-22-2011 |
20110314011 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING TRAINING DATA - Computer-readable media, computer systems, and computing devices facilitate generating binary classifier and entity extractor training data. Seed URLs are selected and URL patterns within the seed URLs are identified. Matching URLs in a data structure are identified and corresponding queries and their associated weights are added to a potential training data set from which training data is selected. | 12-22-2011 |
20120005201 | Method of Ranking Search Results Presented to a User of a Social Network Site - Method of presenting search results to a user of a social network site on the Internet, in which each user of the social network site has a user profile with information regarding the user, includes obtaining content items satisfying a search of information on the Internet by a first user. The content items are ranked as a function of the information in the user profile of the first user such that the content items which are related to the information in the user profile of the first user are ranked higher than the content items which are unrelated to the information in the user profile of the first user. The content items according to ranking are then transferred to a display of the first user via the Internet such that higher ranked content items are displayed on the display prior to lower ranked content items being displayed on the display. | 01-05-2012 |
20120030201 | QUERYING DOCUMENTS USING SEARCH TERMS - Techniques are disclosed for searching a set of documents using search terms. In one embodiment, a summary is provided for each document in the set. Search terms are received, and the set of documents are parsed using the received search terms. A first relevance value is calculated using only the summary of each document. A subset of documents having the highest relevance is provided by using the first relevance value. The subset of documents is parsed using the received search terms, to calculate a second relevance value for each document using the respective document. Query results are provided, the query results including documents having the highest relevance according to the second relevance value. | 02-02-2012 |
20120036125 | Method and system for integrating web-based systems with local document processing applications - The present invention provides a method and system and software that allow users to readily access online legal research tools, while using other applications, such as word processors. One exemplary computer-implemented system provide an add-on software framework that integrates into a host word-processing application on a client access device. The add-on software framework allows users to select from an expandable listing of one or more web applications on a web server, with each of the web application capable of controlling operation of the host word processing application. The web applications facilitate extraction and access to information from the information-retrieval services as well as secondary source reference texts and incorporation of the information in the document or in metadata associated with the document. The present invention allows seamless user experience across host application, such as traditional word processing applications, and Information Service Providers (ISP), such as legal research database and searching tools, and Secondary sources, such as reference texts related to primary source documents, e.g., case law and statues, associated with the ISP service. | 02-09-2012 |
20120041950 | Providing Computable Guidance to Relevant Evidence in Question-Answering Systems - A computer-based system includes a computer-processable definition of a region in a data set. The system identifies a region of the data set based on the definition of the region. The system provides output to a user representing a question and the identified region of the data set. The system may also automatically generate an answer to the question based on the question and the data set, and provide output to the user representing the answer. The system may generate the answer based on a subset of the data set, and provide output to the user representing the subset of the data set. The user may provide feedback on the first answer to the system, which the system may use to improve subsequent answers to the same and other questions, and to disable the system's automatic question-answering function in response to disagreement between the user and the system. | 02-16-2012 |
20120059821 | Method for Efficiently Supporting Interactive, Fuzzy Search on Structured Data - A method to support efficient, interactive, and fuzzy search on text data includes an interactive, fuzzy search on structured data used in applications such as query relaxation, autocomplete, and spell checking, where inconsistencies and errors exist in user queries as well as data. It utilizes techniques to efficiently and interactively answer fuzzy queries on structured data to allow users to efficiently search for information interactively, and they can find records and documents even if these records and documents are slightly different from the user keywords. | 03-08-2012 |
20120078895 | SOURCE EXPANSION FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND INFORMATION EXTRACTION - System, method and computer program product for 1) preparing queries for retrieving related content based on existing data content. For instance, titles of existing documents or entities extracted from documents can be used as queries. 2) Retrieving content from other repositories of unstructured, semi-structured, or structured data. For instance, web pages can be retrieved using existing search engines. 3) Extracting smaller units of text from the retrieved content. For instance, web pages can be split into coherent paragraphs of text. 4) Judging the quality of the smaller units of text and their relatedness to existing data. For instance, paragraphs can be scored using a statistical model based on lexico-syntactic features and topic models. 5) Synthesizing new sources from high-quality related text. For instance, paragraphs that score above a threshold can be concatenated into a new document. | 03-29-2012 |
20120084283 | ITERATIVE REFINEMENT OF SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON USER FEEDBACK - Provided are techniques for displaying search results in a first page, receiving feedback from the user that indicate which of the search results in the first page are at least one of relevant and irrelevant, re-ordering the search results in a second page based on the indications of the search results in the first page, and displaying the re-ordered search results in the second page. | 04-05-2012 |
20120089602 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZING TEXT SEARCHES OVER STRUCTURED DATA IN A MULTI-TENANT ENVIRONMENT - Search systems and methods for searching structured data and enhancing the relevancy of search results provided to a requesting user or application. Enhanced search results are provided by searching a cache of a user's most recently used items to eliminate or reduce search indexing latency. Also, more relevant search results are provided by re-ranking results based on use history, data security models and/or hierarchical user role models. Further, enhanced search results are provided by including user information in the search index. | 04-12-2012 |
20120095996 | SEARCH IN A MULTI-RELATIONSHIP SOCIAL NETWORK - Some aspects include reception, from an entity, of a search query to identify entities, determination of one or more entity clusters associated with the entity, determination of a search result based on the search query, the search result including two or more result entities, and presentation of the two or more result entities in an order based on the one or more entity clusters. | 04-19-2012 |
20120095997 | PROVIDING CONTEXTUAL HINTS ASSOCIATED WITH A USER SESSION - Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that provide contextual indicators associated with a user session are described. Content items within a document associated with a user session are selected. Upon receiving an indication that the user desires to perform a context-aware search, the document associated with the user session is analyzed for contextual information related to the content items selected by the user. Various “contextual indicators” associated with the user session are derived. The contextual indicators are provided for output in association with the user session. The contextual indicators may be fed to a search engine and used to identify search results that the user has an increased likelihood (relative to the current context surrounding the user) of desiring to access. | 04-19-2012 |
20120095998 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RANKING USER DEFINED TARGETS IN A UNIVERSAL GRAPH DATABASE - A computer-implemented method for determining a connection ranking value between entities includes receiving private information from a user, and retrieving public information from publicly available sources. The method also includes matching the public information with the private information, generating a graph database with the public and private information, establishing at least one search criteria, and generating a connection ranking value between entities in the graph database based on the search criteria. | 04-19-2012 |
20120095999 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A STORED RESPONSE TO A SUBJECT QUERY - A system and method of identifying stored responses that may be relevant to a subject query, by identifying relevant phrases in the query that express a topic of the query. A list of the relevant phrases is indexed, and a set of stored responses is reviewed to find a response that includes one or more of the relevant phrases. Relevant phrases may be ranked so that matches of particular phrases in a subject query and stored response may be given more weight in determining a relevance of a stored response. Stored responses may be ranked by the relevance of the terms that they include, where such terms are also relevant to the subject query. | 04-19-2012 |
20120109949 | TWO STAGE SEARCH - A two stage model identifies individuals having knowledge in a subject matter area relevant to a query. A relevance model receives a query and identifies documents, or other information, relevant to the query. A co-occurrence model identifies individuals, in the retrieved documents, related to the subject matter of the query. Individuals identified can be scored by combining scores from the relevance model and the co-occurrence model and output in a rank ordered list. | 05-03-2012 |
20120109950 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALCULATING IMPORTANCE OF A BLOCK WITHIN A DISPLAY PAGE - A method and system for identifying the importance of information areas of a display page. An importance system identifies information areas or blocks of a web page. A block of a web page represents an area of the web page that appears to relate to a similar topic. The importance system provides the characteristics or features of a block to an importance function that generates an indication of the importance of that block to its web page. The importance system “learns” the importance function by generating a model based on the features of blocks and the user-specified importance of those blocks. To learn the importance function, the importance system asks users to provide an indication of the importance of blocks of web pages in a collection of web pages. | 05-03-2012 |
20120124040 | RANKING DATABASE QUERY RESULTS USING AN EFFICIENT METHOD FOR N-ARY SUMMATION - Ranking database query results using an efficient method for N-ary summation is provided. Such operation, referred to herein as “mid-fold N-ary summation” significantly reduces costs of computation for large numbers of queries, as are common in enterprise database applications. Thus, ranking query results using mid-fold N-ary summation offers improved runtime performance and reduced latency relative to using conventional N-ary summation. | 05-17-2012 |
20120124041 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING AND RANKING ELECTRONIC MAILS BASED ON PREDEFINED ALGORITHMS - A method for searching a mailbox of a user to identify and present results relevant to the user's requirements. The mailbox comprises a plurality of e-mails. The method comprises receiving an input from the user specifying the user's requirements. The received input is used to identify one or more contexts of a search. The search is then conducted in the mailbox based on the identified context(s) to identify one or more results relevant to the input. The results are e-mails and/or e-mail attachments that match the user's requirements. The identified results are then ranked according to the extent of relevance to the received input. The results are ranked based on a plurality of pre-defined conditions. The results are then presented to the user on a display at the computer according to the ranking. | 05-17-2012 |
20120136856 | Apparatuses, Methods and Systems for Information Querying and Serving on the Internet Based on Profiles - Apparatuses, methods, and systems for information querying and serving on the internet based on profiles. Information and/or advertisement providers may use a code triggered information server to serve context, demographic, and behavior targeted information to users on the internet. Users trigger the provision of information by scanning or observing codes or information, or by selecting web links. The triggers, together with geographic, temporal, and user-specific information, are obtained by the server that receives, processes, and records the message. Based on these messages and a user profile the server selects information to serve to a user on the internet from an information base. In one embodiment, information may also be served to users without any initiating trigger. This is based on user trajectories or web-surfing habits deduced from the accumulated history of triggers. | 05-31-2012 |
20120150850 | SEARCH RESULT RELEVANCE BY DETERMINING QUERY INTENT - Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, methods, and computer-storage media for determining search query intent based on search results retrieved in response to a search query. In one embodiment, a plurality of search results that are responsive to a search query are retrieved. The plurality of search results is ranked based on relevance to the search query. Additionally, an adult-content score is assigned to one or more of the plurality of search results based on categorizing an amount of adult content within each of the one or more plurality of search results. Further, a search-query-intent score is determined based on the adult-content score of each of the one or more plurality of search results and the ranking of each of the one or more plurality of search results. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150851 | MATCHING REVIEWERS TO REVIEW OBJECTS - Techniques are described for incorporating different types of input available to administrators responsible for assigning reviewers (persons) to objects to be reviewed. A plurality of types of assignment ranking algorithms is provided. Each ranking algorithm can output a different set of candidate assignments (reviewer-review object pairs) with corresponding ranks/weights (measures of how well object fit reviewers). Some ranking algorithms may automatically generate assignments by using information about review objects and reviewers to find matches therebetween. Other algorithms might simply rank or weigh suggested matches (e.g., from manual input). The ranked/weighted assignments from the various algorithms are combined to produce a final result set of suggested assignments of reviewers. In one embodiment, a bidding algorithm, referral algorithm, and a relevance algorithm may be used, and intermediate results therefrom are combined for a final result. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150852 | TEXT ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY RELEVANT ENTITIES - A system includes a data structure comprising a plurality of mesh entities, the data structure associating each of the plurality of mesh entities with a respective name and a respective one or more attribute values, and associating each of the plurality of mesh entities with one or more relations to one or more other ones of the plurality of mesh entities. Some aspects include reception of a file comprising text, identification of text entities from the text, identification of first mesh entities from the plurality of mesh entities based on the identified text entities, determination, for each of the first mesh entities, of a name and one or more attribute values, and determination of a relevance associated with each identified text entity based on the determined name and one or more attribute values. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150853 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH LOCATION BASED CONTROLLED PRIORITY MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of an advertisement delivery system includes: receiving a selection for a category of interest; generating search results for the selection, the search results based on a current location for locating a device providing the selection; generating a weighted distance based on distances of the search results from the current location; generating a weighted relevancy based on relative matches of the search results and the selection; generating a weighted customization with the search results sharing a common attribute that is predefined; and delivering a notification from the search results by an aggregation of the weighted distance, the weighted relevancy, and the weighted customization, the aggregation meeting or exceeding a threshold for displaying on the device. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150854 | Relevance Estimation using a Search Satisfaction Metric - The subject disclosure is directed towards using a satisfaction model's prediction as to whether a user was satisfied or dissatisfied in satisfying a search goal to help estimate the relevance of a URL/document that was returned and clicked by the user. The clickthrough data for a search goal session is processed by either a utility model or a despair model based on whether the satisfaction model indicated that the search goal session ended with the user satisfied or dissatisfied, respectively. The utility model distributes a utility value to each clicked URL, while the despair model distributes a despair value to each clicked URL. The utility value and despair value of each query-URL pair may be used as corresponding feature data for learning a search ranker. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150855 | CROSS-MARKET MODEL ADAPTATION WITH PAIRWISE PREFERENCE DATA - Embodiments are directed towards generating market-specific ranking models by leveraging target market specific pairwise preference data. The pairwise preference data includes market-specific training examples, while a ranking model from another market captures the common characteristics of the resulting ranking model. In one embodiment, the ranking model is trained by applying a Tree Based Ranking Function Adaptation (TRADA) algorithm to multi-grade labeled training data, such as editorially generated training data. Then, contradictions between the TRADA generated ranking model and target-market specific pairwise preference data are identified. For each identified contradiction, new training data is generated to correct the contradiction. Then, in one embodiment, an algorithm such as TRADA is applied to the existing ranking model and the new training data to generate a new ranking model. | 06-14-2012 |
20120158713 | RANKING MEDIA CONTENT FOR CLOUD-BASED SEARCHES - A device receives, from a user device, a search query for media content within a content delivery network. The device identifies a group of relevant media content in the content delivery network, where the identifying is based on the search query, access restrictions of particular media content within the content delivery network, and/or a capability of the user device to present particular types of media content. The device associates sub-scores with each piece of media content in the group of relevant media content, and calculates a total score, for each piece of media content in the group of relevant media content, based on the sub-scores. The device ranks each piece of media content in the group of relevant media content, based on the total scores for each piece of media content, and sends, based on the search query, a list of the ranked, relevant media content to the user device. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158714 | STORAGE AND SEARCHING OF TEMPORAL ENTITY INFORMATION - A system may include determination of a plurality of data structures associated with an entity, each of the plurality of data structures associated with a respective validity period, determination of a plurality of non-overlapping time periods based on the validity periods, the plurality of non-overlapping time periods collectively spanning all of the validity periods, determination, for each of the plurality of non-overlapping time periods, of a composite data structure based on each of the data structures associated with a validity period including the non-overlapping time period, assignment of a respective document identifier to each composite data structure, each document identifier indicating the entity, and indexing of the composite data structures within an index. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158715 | ON-LINE SOCIAL SEARCH - Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented using one or more computing devices to facilitate or otherwise support one or more processes or operations in connection with performing information searches, such as, for example, domain-specific on-line searches using social survey-type queries. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158716 | IMAGE OBJECT RETRIEVAL BASED ON AGGREGATION OF VISUAL ANNOTATIONS - An approach for responding to a text-based query for a digital image is provided. A request that identifies one or more keywords is received. A number of annotated digital images are selected based on a previously determined optimum quantity of annotated digital images. Composite data is gathered from each annotated digital image and a set of candidate digital images is selected based on the composite data. The set of candidate images are the digital images, of a set of digital images, which have a visual appearance that is most similar to the composite data. A response is generated that identifies those digital images which are most responsive to the one or more keywords. Alternatively, a partitioned response is generated which identifies dissimilar sets of digital images. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158717 | VISUALIZATION OF RELEVANCE FOR CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL - The invention relates to a system ( | 06-21-2012 |
20120166432 | Providing Context Relevant Search for a User Based on Location and Social Information - A social networking system provides relevant third-party content objects to users by matching user location, interests, and other social information with the content, location, and timing associated with the content objects. Content objects are provided based on relevance scores specific to a user. Relevance scores may be calculated based on the user's previous interactions with content object notifications, or based on interests that are common between the user and his or her connections in the social network. Context search is also provided for a user, wherein a list of search of results is ranked according to the relevance score of content object associated with the search results. Notifications may also be priced and distributed to users based on their relevance. In this way, the system can provide notifications that are relevant to user's interests and current circumstances, increasing the likelihood that they will find content objects of interest. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166433 | PROVIDING RELEVANT NOTIFICATIONS FOR A USER BASED ON LOCATION AND SOCIAL INFORMATION - A social networking system provides relevant third-party content objects to users by matching user location, interests, and other social information with the content, location, and timing associated with the content objects. Content objects are provided based on relevance scores specific to a user. Relevance scores may be calculated based on the user's previous interactions with content object notifications, or based on interests that are common between the user and his or her connections in the social network. Context search is also provided for a user, wherein a list of search of results is ranked according to the relevance score of content object associated with the search results. Notifications may also be priced and distributed to users based on their relevance. In this way, the system can provide notifications that are relevant to user's interests and current circumstances, increasing the likelihood that they will find content objects of interest. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166434 | CONTROL COMPUTER AND FILE SEARCH METHOD USING THE SAME - A method for performing file search using a control computer receives an initial query expression from a client computer, divides the initial query expression into one or more keywords, determines related terms corresponding to each keyword, merges the keywords and the related terms to obtain an updated query expression, and generates search results according to the updated query expression. The method further calculates relevance scores among a plurality of documents in the search results and the updated query expression, ranks the documents in the search results according to the relevance scores, and displays the documents in the search results with the ranked order. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166435 | DYNAMIC PRESENTATION OF TARGETED INFORMATION IN A MIXED MEDIA REALITY RECOGNITION SYSTEM - A context-aware targeted information delivery system comprises a mobile device, an MMR matching unit, a plurality of databases for user profiles, user context and advertising information, a plurality of comparison engines and a plurality of weight adjusters. The mobile device is coupled to deliver an image patch to the MMR matching unit which in turn performs recognition to produce recognize text. The recognized text is provided to a first and second comparison engines to produce relevant topics and relevant ads. The relevant topics and relevant ads are adjusted with information from a user context database including information such as location, date, time, and other information from a user profile. The third comparison engine compares the relevant topics and relevant ads to produce a set of final ads that are most related to the topics of interest for the user and delivered for display on to the mobile device. | 06-28-2012 |
20120185472 | Relevancy Ranking of Search Results in a Network Based Upon a User's Computer-Related Activities - A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product providing ordered search results within a search engine. Items are retrieved from a network satisfying search criteria provided by a user. Computer-related activities performed by the user, including social networking activities, are determined, and the retrieved items are ranked based on the computer-related activities. The ranking of the retrieved items is dependent upon whether any retrieved item has been referenced by the social networking activities of the user, and the search results are provided including the retrieved items in order of the ranking. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185473 | USER INTERFACE FOR USE IN NON-DETERMINISTIC SEARCHING - Apparatus for analysing non-deterministic results of a search query of data, comprising a processor and a user interface, the processor being operably in communication with a plurality of data sources and adapted to communicate with the user interface which enables the user to query the content of the data sources, wherein the processor is adapted to determine the probable relevance of at least the part of a searched data source for a user query and the user interface is adapted to present to the user the search results in a form comprising two or more portlets, wherein the portlets comprises two or more of: a portlet presenting the search results (suchas search strings) for a data source(s); a portlet presenting the data source (such as by source name) of a data soruce(s); a portlet presenting a data source filter tree for selecting currently active source(s); a portlet presenting the hit(s) of a search query for a data source; a portlet presenting the hit location within a data source; and at least one of the portlets presents the user with the probability of the relevance of the data source to the search query. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185474 | METHODS FOR SEARCHING PRIVATE SOCIAL NETWORK DATA - A method for searching a database that includes private network data includes providing one or more databases including a plurality of database entries, a first portion of the database entries including private social network data and a second portion including non-social network data that is publicly accessible on the World Wide Web. The method further includes receiving a keyword search request from a search request user and searching the one or more databases or a keyword index thereof using one or more keywords and ranking ranking the search result items according to relevancy. The method also includes displaying at least a portion of the search results items as a selectable link where a first portion of the selectable links are to private network data and a second portion of the links are to public, non-social network data. | 07-19-2012 |
20120197882 | CONSOLIDATED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL RESULTS - Systems and methods are disclosed for consolidating information retrieval results. According to some embodiments of the invention, a computer system can be used to create a result set in response to a query. Results in the result set can then be compared with each other to determine whether they contain information regarding a single object or entity, in which case the records are consolidated and redundant data is removed. The computer system can then present the consolidated result on a display. | 08-02-2012 |
20120203776 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FLEXIBLE SPEECH TO TEXT SEARCH MECHANISM - A system and method for receiving an initial search entry to search text data. The text data may be, for example, an N word lattice, transcribed by a text to speech engine. The difference between the initial search entry and one or more entries in the dictionary may be measured. One or more similar entries may be selected from the dictionary that have the smallest measures of difference to the initial search entry. The text data may be searched for the one or more selected similar entries. Each of the searched similar entries found in the text data may be displayed as a search result. | 08-09-2012 |
20120209839 | PROVIDING APPLICATIONS WITH PERSONALIZED AND CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT CONTENT - The technology provides content about a user to a currently executing instance of an application which uses the provided content to personalize and make its processing contextually relevant for a user. When the application instance is launched, a message requesting data related to categories for a user is sent to a context relevant, content aggregation and distribution system. The service executes within a cloud computing system, and provides the application instance with content derived from sources like other applications and data stored on devices the application instance is not or cannot communicate with. The service gathers content from many different types of online resources such as e-mail, social networking sites, websites, and other data accessible over communication networks with different communication protocols. | 08-16-2012 |
20120215774 | PROPAGATING SIGNALS ACROSS A WEB GRAPH - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for a method of propagating signals across a web graph. A signal describes a document or otherwise provides useful information about a document in a web graph. A web graph is a collection of documents that are related to one another through links, such as hyperlinks. The signals are propagated in the sense that information from the related pages is associated with the target page even though the information may not be directly found in the target page. This information may then be used by a search engine to determine that a particular page is relevant to a search query. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215775 | TYPED RELEVANCE SCORES IN AN IDENTITY RESOLUTION SYSTEM - Techniques are disclosed for configuring an identity resolution system to support distinct relevance types. Identity records are accessed that are assigned relevance scores of distinct relevance types. Upon determining that the identity records refer to a common individual, the identity records are resolved into an entity representing the common individual. Relevance scores of the distinct relevance types are then determined for the entity, based on the identity records. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215776 | QUERY IDENTIFICATION AND ASSOCIATION - Apparatus, systems and methods for predictive query identification for advertisements are disclosed. Candidate query are identified from queries stored in a query log. Relevancy scores for a plurality of web documents are generated, each relevancy score associated with a corresponding web document and being a measure of the relevance of the candidate query to the web document. A web document having an associated relevancy score that exceeds a relevancy threshold is selected. The selected web document is associated with the candidate query. | 08-23-2012 |
20120221562 | Search Method and System - The present disclosure discloses a search method and system. A method obtains a first search result set of first search results relevant to query data submitted by a client. According to a first relevance score and a preset diversity field of each first search result in the first search result set, a second relevance score of each first search result is calculated. The preset diversity field represents an attribute category of a respective first search result. According to the first relevance score and the second relevance score, a relevance parameter score for each first search result is generated. According to a preset number of second search results and the relevance parameter score, the present number of second search results are extracted from the first search result set to display to the client. The technique achieves lower consumption of system resources, faster computation speed and more flexibility in diversification of search results. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221563 | Social Weight of Social Media Content - Systems and methods for social weighting of content items from a plurality of content sources, such as the Internet, are described. Disclosed implementations include, but are not limited to, receiving a search request from a user, retrieving content items related to the search request to obtain a number of results, weighting the results according to at least one social factor, and providing the weighted results in response to the request. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221564 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVEMENT OF RELEVANCE OF SEARCH RESULTS - A system and method for improving the relevance of search results is disclosed. Voters who may be human searchers or guides may review search results or other review items associated with a search request or other reference item. A review may be activated based on a usage indicator(s) which may improve utilization of guides. A vote by a voter may be weighted based on a voting history associated with the voter and one or more reference voters who may be designated by the system. A voter may be presented with a group of items for review including simultaneously. A number of comparison voting sessions or elections may be used to determine a rating or ranking of a review item associated with a reference item. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221565 | PROVIDING RELEVANT INFORMATION BASED ON DATA SPACE ACTIVITY ITEMS - Various embodiments of systems and methods for providing relevant information based on data space activity items are described herein. Data space activity items of a user are identified while the user is working through an application. Several context elements relevant to each data space activity item are then determined Content locations are searched to find content items relevant to the context elements. The content items are then ranked to determine relevant information. The relevant information can be accessed by the user when required. | 08-30-2012 |
20120226686 | PRIORITIZING SEARCH FOR NON-EXACT MATCHING SERVICE DESCRIPTION IN SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA) SERVICE REGISTRY SYSTEM WITH ADVANCED SEARCH CAPABILITY - A system and associated method for advanced searching of a service registry for a service description that is most closely matches a service name provided by a user. A Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) service registry system receives the service name and searches the service registry for the service description that is an exact match of the service name. Upon determining that the exact match does not exist in the service registry, the SOA service registry system generates an alternative service name list by use of a name parser, a dictionary, and a name composer of the SOA service registry system and calculates respective ranks of alternative service names. The service registry is searched pursuant to respective ranks of the alternative service names and the SOA service registry system returns the service description that is searched by a highest ranked alternative service name from the ranked alternative service name list. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226687 | Query Expansion for Web Search - Systems, methods, and devices are described for retrieving query results based at least in part on a query and one or more similar queries. Upon receiving a query, one or more similar queries may be identified and/or calculated. In one embodiment, the similar queries may be determined based at least in part on click-through data corresponding to previously submitted queries. Information associated with the query and each of the similar queries may be retrieved, ranked, and or combined. The combined query results may then be re-ranked based at least in part on a responsiveness and/or relevance to the previously submitted query. The re-ranked query results may then be output to a user that submitted the original query. | 09-06-2012 |
20120233159 | HIERARCHICAL RANKING OF FACIAL ATTRIBUTES - In response to a query of discernible facial attributes, the locations of distinct and different facial regions are estimated from face image data, each relevant to different attributes. Different features are extracted from the estimated facial regions from database facial images, which are ranked in base layer rankings by matching feature vectors in a bipartite graph to a base layer ranking sequence as a function of edge weights parameterized by an associated base layer parameter vector. Second-layer rankings define second-layer attribute vectors as bilinear combinations of the base-layer feature vectors and associated base layer parameter vectors for common attributes, which are matched in a bipartite graph to a second-layer ranking sequence as a function of edge weights parameterized by associated second-layer parameter vectors. The images are thus ranked for relevance to the query as a function of fusing the second-layer rankings. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233160 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSISTING A USER TO IDENTIFY THE CONTEXTS OF SEARCH RESULTS - The present invention provides a method and a system of providing assistance to a user to identify at least one context of a received content. In one embodiment, this is accomplished by receiving at least one content location as input from the user, extracting the content from the received content location and displaying a plurality of contexts relevant to the content from the received content location, wherein the contexts include one or more topics, and wherein the topics are part of one or more ontologies. In second embodiment, this is accomplished by receiving at least one search result of a search query and providing the contexts relevant to the search results, wherein the contexts include one or more topics, and wherein the topics are part of one or more ontologies. | 09-13-2012 |
20120246154 | AGGREGATING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON ASSOCIATING DATA INSTANCES WITH KNOWLEDGE BASE ENTITIES - Methods and systems for aggregating search query results include receiving search query results and schema information for the query results from multiple heterogeneous sources, determining types for elements of the query results based on the schema information, determining potential aggregations for the query results based on the types, which are based on accumulated information from the plurality of heterogeneous resources, and aggregating the query results according to one or more of the potential aggregations. | 09-27-2012 |
20120246155 | SEMANTIC TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR SEARCH RESULTS - A table of contents is generated for search results in response to a search query by identifying semantic concepts as topics for inclusion within the table of contents. When a search query is received, a search is performed to identify search results. The search results are compared to an ontology of topics to identify relevant topics. Additionally, search results are compared to an ontology of partial topics to identify relevant partial topics, which are named. Independent key-phrases are further generated from search results and identified as key-phrase topics. The identified topics, named partial topics, and key-phrase topics are ranked, and topics are selected for inclusion within a table of contents. A search results page is returned in response to the search query that includes search results and the generated table of contents. | 09-27-2012 |
20120254165 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPARING DOCUMENTS BASED ON DIFFERENT DOCUMENT-SIMILARITY CALCULATION METHODS USING ADAPTIVE WEIGHTING - One embodiment provides a system for comparing documents based on different document-similarity calculation methods using adaptive weighting. During operation, the system receives at least two document-similarity values associated with two documents, wherein the document-similarity values are calculated by different document-similarity calculation methods. The system then determines the weight of a respective document-similarity calculation method for each of the two documents, as well as a weight-combination function for calculating a combined weight of the respective document-similarity calculation method associated with the two documents. Next, the system generates a combined similarity value based on the document-similarity values and the weight-combination function. | 10-04-2012 |
20120265757 | RANKING BLOG DOCUMENTS - A blog search engine may receive a search query. The blog search engine may determine scores for a group of blog documents in response to the search query, where the scores are based on a relevance of the group of blog documents to the search query and a quality of the group of blog documents. The blog search engine may also provide information regarding the group of blog documents based on the determined scores. | 10-18-2012 |
20120271821 | Noise Tolerant Graphical Ranking Model - The relevance of an object, such as a document resulting from a query, may be determined automatically. A graphical model-based technique is applied to determine the relevance of the object. The graphical model may represent relationships between actual and observed labels for the object, based on features of the object. The graphical model may take into account an assumption of noisy training data by modeling the noise. | 10-25-2012 |
20120284263 | TYPED RELEVANCE SCORES IN AN IDENTITY RESOLUTION SYSTEM - Techniques are disclosed for configuring an identity resolution system to support distinct relevance types. Identity records are accessed that are assigned relevance scores of distinct relevance types. Upon determining that the identity records refer to a common individual, the identity records are resolved into an entity representing the common individual. Relevance scores of the distinct relevance types are then determined for the entity, based on the identity records. | 11-08-2012 |
20120290570 | IMPACT-BASED ARRANGEMENT OF IMAGES ON AN ELECTRONIC DISPLAY - Disclosed are methods for arranging list elements (e.g., results returned by a user search) according to anticipated “impact.” Thumbnails of the top elements are displayed on a screen of the user's device, with the size of each thumbnail related to that result's anticipated impact. In some embodiments, the arrangement of these thumbnails on the display screen is also based on the anticipated impacts with larger thumbnails placed near the center of the screen and successively smaller thumbnails arranged farther away. Different embodiments may calculate the anticipated impacts differently. The impact can be related to the rank order as assigned by a search engine. Any information about the user's current situation can go into the calculation of the anticipated impact. When the user is searching for information, longer video results may be assigned a larger anticipated impact because they are more likely to contain the wanted information. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290571 | Evaluating Intellectual Property - Aggregation, analysis, and presentation of patent and business data in a common interface are described. The analysis includes techniques for evaluating a patent or patent application by examining claim-related information. These techniques include deriving unique signatures of individual claims and ascertaining scope of individual claims relative to other claims in a collection (such as claims found in a common class). The signature and scope of patent claims may be graphically depicted using various graphics elements in a user interface. | 11-15-2012 |
20120296897 | Text to Image Translation - Techniques are described for online real time text to image translation suitable for virtually any submitted query. Semantic classes and associated analogous items for each of the semantic classes are determined for the submitted query. One or more requests are formulated that are associated with analogous items. The requests are used to obtain web based images and associated surrounding text. The web based images are used to obtain associated near-duplicate images. The surrounding text of images is analyzed to create high-quality text associated with each semantic class of the submitted query. One or more query dependent classifiers are trained online in real time to remove noisy images. A scoring function is used to score the images. The images with the highest score are returned as a query response. | 11-22-2012 |
20120310928 | DISCOVERING EXPERTISE USING DOCUMENT METADATA IN PART TO RANK AUTHORS - Expertise mining features are provided based in part on the use of an expertise mining algorithm and expertise mining queries. A method of an embodiment operates to provide an expanded feedback query based in part on search results using an expertise mining query and a number of author-ranking heuristics used to rank authors and/or co-authors (e.g., primary authors, secondary authors, etc.) as part of an expertise mining operation. A search system of an embodiment includes an author ranker component to rank authors based in part on an expertise mining query and author-ranking heuristics, and a query expander component to provide expanded queries as part of identifying relevant search results. Other embodiments are also disclosed. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310929 | Context-Based Ranking of Search Results - In one embodiment, a computing device may access a search query provided by a user; identify a set of search results in response to the search query, wherein one or more search results in the set are associated with a feature of a social-networking system; rank the set of search results based on one or more factors; boost one or more ranks of the one or more search results associated with the feature to bring the feature to the user's attention; and present the set of search results to the user in order of its ranking | 12-06-2012 |
20120310930 | Keyword Suggestion for Efficient Legal E-Discovery - Given a set of documents relevant to a litigation hold and a seed set of keywords, a second set of keywords can be generated and suggested to a user. Each document in a training set of documents is given an indication of relevance. Based on the indication of relevance, a set of further keywords relevant to the litigation is extracted from the documents and suggested to a user. The suggested set of keywords may or may not include keywords in the seed set. Additionally, the suggested set of keywords may be related to the seed set of keywords. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310931 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZING TEXT SEARCHES OVER STRUCTURED DATA IN A MULTI-TENANT ENVIRONMENT - Search systems and methods for searching structured data and enhancing the relevancy of search results provided to a requesting user or application. Enhanced search results are provided by searching a cache of a user's most recently used items to eliminate or reduce search indexing latency. Also, more relevant search results are provided by re-ranking results based on use history, data security models and/or hierarchical user role models. Further, enhanced search results are provided by including user information in the search index | 12-06-2012 |
20120317105 | Method and Apparatus for Updating Index and Sequencing Search Results Based on Updated Index in Terminal - The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for updating an index and sequencing search results based on the updated index in a terminal. The method comprises: retrieving whether there is any modification in a file; if there is any modification in the file, performing an increment index the modified file to generate new index file, wherein the increment index includes a number of times that the modified file is selected historically; merging the new index file into the original index file; obtaining key words input by the user; querying the search results related to the key words, sequencing the search results according to the relevance between the search results and the key words and the number of times that the modified file is selected historically and displaying the sequenced search results to the user. By the present invention, the user experience of the mobile terminal is improved. | 12-13-2012 |
20120323908 | RANKING SEARCH RESULTS BASED UPON CONTENT CREATION TRENDS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for ranking search results based upon content creation trends. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for ranking search results based upon content creation trends includes first receiving a set of results from a search engine produced in response to a search engine query of one or more search terms. The method additionally includes ranking the results of the result set according to at least one ranking factor. The method yet further includes retrieving trend data for terms associated with either or both of the results and/or the search terms. Finally, the method includes weighting the ranked results in the result set according to the retrieved trend data. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323909 | QUERY-BASED USER GROUPS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Implementations of the present disclosure include obtaining one or more queries, processing data stored in a data store based on at least one query of the one or more queries to identify a plurality of users, the plurality of users sharing a commonality that is a subject of the at least one query, generating one or more query-based social circles, the plurality of users populating a query-based social circle of the one or more query-based social circles, the query-based social circle being directed to the commonality and defining a distribution list for distributing digital content provided by one or more users of the plurality of users, and transmitting social circle data corresponding to the query-based social circle to display a representation of the query-based social circle to at least one user of the plurality of users. | 12-20-2012 |
20120330946 | INTUITIVE, CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION SEARCH AND PRESENTATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Tags representing characteristic terms in a set of matter-specific local documents, such as an accumulating litigation or medical record, are identified and used to evaluate the relevance to a user of each of a set of global, generally accessible documents. User-entered keywords and other parameters may also be incorporated into the search strategy to increase the relevance of returned documents. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330947 | Name-Search System and Method - A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method may include receiving a portion of a personal name and converting the portion to a normalized portion by reducing the one or more characters to their simplest equivalents. The method may further include searching a typographical index tree and a phonetic index tree to identify one or more keys matching the normalized portion. The method may further include compiling, ranking, and presenting a plurality of suggested matches identified during the searching. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330948 | MULTI-PART SEARCH RESULT RANKING - Search results responsive to a query are generated by a search engine. If the query is “location relevant”, the results are provided to a ranker component. If the query is an entity search, then entities matching the query are ranked by distance from the user. If the query is not, and if it is not semantically charged, the entities are ranked either according to distance from the user or by search relevance. If the query is semantically charged, a semantic score is calculated for each entity. One or more threshold semantic scores are determined that divide the search results into multiple parts. The results within each part can then be ranked independently. The results within a first part are ranked according to their distance from the user, while the results in a subsequent part are ranked according to their semantical relationship to the query. The re-ranked parts are concatenated together. | 12-27-2012 |
20130006977 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING RELEVANCE OF WEB CONTENT - A method and system for improving relevance of web content. The method includes receiving a search query from a user. The method also includes processing the search query by generating a list of web content results based on the search query. The search query is also processed by determining a plurality of click counts for the list of web content results. Each click count of the plurality of click counts is generated by one or more contacts in a social network of the user. The search query is further processed by mapping each click count to a corresponding web content result in the list of web content results. The method further includes displaying the list of web content results along with the plurality of click counts. Each click count of the plurality of click counts is displayed with the corresponding web content result in the list of web content results. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006978 | OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE RANKING OF COMMENTS - A system may receive a request for comments associated with a particular document, identify a comment associated with the particular document, generate an objective score for the comment that is independent of a user associated with the request, identify the user associated with the request, generate a subjective score for the comment based on parameters associated with the identified user, generate a combined score for the comment by combining the objective score and the subjective score, and provide the comment, ranked based on the combined score, to the user for presentation with the particular document. | 01-03-2013 |
20130013596 | DOCUMENT-RELATED REPRESENTATIVE INFORMATION - Some implementations include techniques and arrangements to provide document-related representative information with search results. For example, a representative query and/or representative results may be provided for one or more individual documents identified in a set of search results to supplement the search results returned in response to a received search query. The representative queries may be determined by correlating a plurality of previously submitted queries in search log data with a plurality of documents returned in response to the queries. In some implementations, click-through frequency for a particular document with respect to the plurality of queries may be taken into consideration when determining the representative queries for the particular document. In some implementations, the representative queries serve to categorize the search results based on subject matter, and a link may be provided to representative results corresponding to the representative query for accessing documents directed to similar subject matter. | 01-10-2013 |
20130018878 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHODAANM Sansom; Patrick MichaelAACI LondonAACO GBAAGP Sansom; Patrick Michael London GBAANM Valentine; Ian JamesAACI LondonAACO GBAAGP Valentine; Ian James London GB - The present invention relates to a communications system ( | 01-17-2013 |
20130018879 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDED INFORMATION FROM A CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method for providing recommended information to a user system from a customer relationship management (CRM) system is disclosed. The method embodiment includes receiving by a server a message including a request for recommended information from a requesting user system associated with a user, where the message also includes real-time user-specific information collected by and stored on the requesting user system. The method also includes identifying by the server records managed by a CRM system, related to the real-time user-specific information and that the user is authorized to access. A relevance score is determined for each of the identified records based on relevance factors, and recommended records are selected based on the relevance scores of the recommended records. Information identifying the recommended records is included in a response message that is transmitted by the server to the requesting user system. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018880 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY PROCESSING AMBIGUOUS, REDUCED TEXT SEARCH QUERIES AND HIGHLIGHTING RESULTS THEREOF - A method and system are provided of processing a search query entered by a user of a device having a text input interface with overloaded keys. The search query is directed at identifying an item from a set of items. Each of the items has a name including one or more words. The system receives from the user an ambiguous search query directed at identifying a desired item. The search query comprises a prefix substring of at least one word in the name of the desired item. The system dynamically identifies a group of one or more items from the set of items having one or more words in the names thereof matching the search query as the user enters each character of the search query. | 01-17-2013 |
20130024448 | RANKING SEARCH RESULTS USING FEATURE SCORE DISTRIBUTIONS - Document features or document ranking values can be associated with a distribution of values. Feature values, feature value coefficients, and/or document ranking values can be generated based on sampled values from the distribution of values. This can allow the relative ranking of a document to vary. As additional information is obtained regarding the document, leading to greater certainty about the appropriate ranking of the document, the width or variation generated by the distribution can be reduced to provide more stable ranking values | 01-24-2013 |
20130024449 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOWING USERS TO AUGMENT SEARCHES - Embodiment of the invention relate to a computer-implemented method for providing augmented searches for entities to a user, the method comprising obtaining, at a server computer operated by an entity search system, user data related to a user, and obtaining entity data related to a plurality of entities. Then, the entity search system receives a query for a search for relevant entities from the user. The method then further comprises searching for a set of relevant entities based on the query, entity data, and user data, determining a set of criteria for an initial order of relevance, and determining an order of relevance of the set of relevant entities based on the set of criteria. The set of relevant entities or order of relevance may be augmented by obtaining feedback data from the user, thereby providing an augmented search for relevant entities to the user. | 01-24-2013 |
20130041895 | IDENTIFYING NON-DISTINCT NAMES IN A SET OF NAMES - Non-distinct names are identified in a set of names. The set of names is obtained for a first entity. In response to comparing a first name and a second name in the set of names, it is determined that the first name is similar to the second name. Initials in the first name and the second name are searched for. In response to the search indicating that there is at least one initial in at least one of the first name and the second name, it is determined that the at least one initial matches a corresponding initial in another one of the first name and the second name and one of the first name and the second name are marked as a non-distinct name. A cross-entity scoring technique using distinct names in the set of names for the first entity and names in another set of names for a second entity is applied. | 02-14-2013 |
20130046759 | CONNECTING QUESTIONS, ANSWERS, ANNOUNCEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES TO RELEVANT ENTITIES - A method for brokering information includes receiving an initiator produced system activity, scoring a relevance of the system activity with each of a plurality of subscriber-specified thresholds, and transmitting an activity response to a subscriber activity feed in response to the system activity, the subscriber activity feed selected according to the relevance of a corresponding subscriber-specified threshold. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046760 | CUSTOMER RELEVANCE SCORES AND METHODS OF USE - Systems and methods for determining the shareability of online content and generating customer relevance scores. Exemplary methods for determining the shareability of online content may include obtaining social media data from one or more social media platforms relative to online content, calculating a customer relevance score that represents shareability of the online content, and providing the customer relevance score to an end user client device by the social media intelligence system. | 02-21-2013 |
20130054586 | SEARCH RESULT RANKING WITH SEARCH STRING CERTAINTY WEIGHTING - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with search result ranking with certainty weighting are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a search string being input to a search system to retrieve stored artifacts relevant to the search string. A first certainty level associated with a first portion of the search string is determined and a second certainty level associated with a second portion of the search string is determined. Artifacts retrieved by execution of the search string are ranked to produce a search result. The ranking is based, at least in part, on whether a retrieved artifact is relevant to the first portion or the second portion of the search string. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054587 | PROCESSING SOCIAL SEARCH RESULTS - Techniques are described herein for processing social search results. Such social search results may be included in a relatively higher-ranked (e.g., a highest-ranked) subset of a user's search results and/or selected from a relatively lower-ranked subset of the user's search results in response to a determination that the relatively higher-ranked subset includes social search result(s). In one example, the social search results (or a subset thereof) may be annotated to include publicly available rich metadata. Such metadata may be extracted from user profiles on social networking domains from which the social search results are received. In another example, the social search results (or a subset thereof) may be clustered such that they are consecutively ranked. In yet another example, the social search results (or a subset thereof) may be configured to be displayed in a designated arrangement (e.g., in a grid having multiple columns). | 02-28-2013 |
20130054588 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SEARCH RELEVANCY IN COMMUNICATION INITIATION SEARCHES - Systems and methods for generating relevant search results for a user are disclosed. In one example, the method comprises receiving a search query from the user performing a communication initiation search, receiving, by the computer system, search results from a search engine based on the search query, linking, by the computer system, the search results to a communications dataset generated based on communication metadata received from a communication system, and ordering, by the computer system, the search results based on the communication dataset in order from most relevant to least relevant to the user performing the communication initiation search. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054589 | System And Method For Identifying Semantically Relevant Documents - A system and method for identifying semantically relevant documents is provided. An index having semantic index key terms from one or more documents is maintained. A query is obtained and semantic key terms of the query are identified. Each of the query key terms are associated with information, including use of the word and a grammatical role of the word. Each of the query key terms and variants of the query key terms is looked up in the index based on the information. One or more of the documents in the index are identified as possible relevant candidates based on the look up. A potential match candidate set is generated by filtering the possible relevant candidates. At least one of the documents that match the query is identified by comparing a semantic representation for each non-filtered potential match candidate in the set with a semantic representation for the query. | 02-28-2013 |
20130060769 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SOCIAL MEDIA INTERACTIONS - A system and method for searching data, such as, text data, using a processing component. A query including one or more terms may be received. At least one term may be automatically added to the query to generate an expanded query set. Entries from one or more information sources, such as, Internet posts, may be retrieved. The retrieved entries may include terms that match terms in the expanded query set. The relevancy of each retrieved entry to the query may be automatically determined. A search result may be provided including a subset of the retrieved entries that are determined to have sufficient relevancy to the query. An output device may display the search result to a client or user. | 03-07-2013 |
20130066862 | MULTI-FACTOR CORRELATION OF INTERNET CONTENT RESOURCES - Embodiments are directed to efficiently correlating internet resources and to providing relevant content to a user. In an embodiment, a computer system gathers portions of information from multiple different resources and organizes the gathered information into different indices according to at least one of the following data axes: author, topic and source. The computer system computes correlations between the organized information across the data axes so that each portion of information has relationship information linking it to other portions of organized information. The computer system also intelligently learns which other informational items are to be searched for based on the computed correlations and returns the additional data relevant to the gathered data. | 03-14-2013 |
20130080427 | PRESENTING USER PREFERENCE ACTIVITIES - Determining preference activities to present to a current user includes: obtaining a plurality of candidate preference activities; determining a recommendation weight for one of the plurality of candidate preference activities with respect to the current user; and presenting at least some of the plurality of candidate preference activities based on recommendation weights corresponding to the plurality of candidate preference activities. | 03-28-2013 |
20130103680 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DYNAMIC AND VISUAL OBJECT SEARCH INTERFACE - Provided herein are a method, apparatus and computer program product for dynamically and visually interfacing with a device to locate information and objects using a dynamic graphical interface to select and adjust the weight afforded to individual search criterion and a search. Example methods may provide for display of a search target, provide for display of a first search criterion disposed at a first distance from the search target where the first distance corresponds to a first search criterion weight, and provide for display of a second search criterion disposed at a second distance from the search target, where the second distance corresponds to a second search criterion weight. Methods may further include providing for searching the search target using the first search criterion afforded the first search criterion weight and the second search criterion afforded the second search criterion weight. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103681 | Relevant persons identification leveraging both textual data and social context - A set of documents is annotated by metadata specifying persons associated with documents and their social roles in the documents. The annotated documents define a group of representation modes including at least one content type and at least one social role. An electronic processing device computes a relevance score for a person of interest using a set of queries each having a target social role by performing a sequence of operations that includes the following operations: computing similarities between documents and queries with respect to at least one similarity mode of the group of representation modes; enriching queries or documents to identify and aggregate nearest neighbor documents that are most similar with respect to at least one enrichment mode of the group of representation modes; aggregating over documents; aggregating over queries; and aggregating over at least one of (i) enrichment modes, (ii) similarity modes, and (iii) target social roles. | 04-25-2013 |
20130110827 | RELEVANCE OF NAME AND OTHER SEARCH QUERIES WITH SOCIAL NETWORK FEATURE | 05-02-2013 |
20130110828 | TENANTIZATION OF SEARCH RESULT RANKING | 05-02-2013 |
20130110829 | Method and Apparatus of Ranking Search Results, and Search Method and Apparatus | 05-02-2013 |
20130124513 | EXTRACTING PRINCIPAL CONTENT FROM WEB PAGES - Extracting principal content from Web pages includes identifying and classifying items on the Web page, building a list of candidates, calculating candidate scores, selecting a top score candidate, performing clean up processing for the top score candidate, and performing final page processing for the top score candidate. Candidate scores may vary according to a number of paragraphs and images grouped according to size. A world length of CJK (Chinese-Japanese-Korean) text may be determined according to punctuation therein. Candidate scores may be modified according to a number of containers and pieces and wherein a container is a Web page element that is associated with tags ‘body’, ‘div’, ‘td’, ‘li’, ‘article/section’ and pieces are candidates that do not include other candidates. Candidate scores may be modified according to a number of ratios corresponding to text and link density. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124514 | HIERARCHICAL RANKING OF FACIAL ATTRIBUTES - In response to a query of discernable facial attributes, the locations of distinct and different facial regions are estimated from face image data, each relevant to different attributes. Different features are extracted from the estimated facial regions from database facial images, which are ranked in base layer rankings by matching feature vectors to a base layer ranking sequence as a function of edge weights. Second-layer rankings define second-layer attribute vectors as combinations of the base-layer feature vectors and associated base layer parameter vectors for common attributes, which are matched to a second-layer ranking sequence as a function of edge weights. The images are thus ranked for relevance to the query as a function of the second-layer rankings. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124515 | METHOD FOR DOCUMENT SEARCH AND ANALYSIS - A search platform and method for enhancing analysis of contents in a patent/non-patent literature document by locating/extracting additional similar contents in the patent/non-patent literature document based on a user selected content/text in the document. A user selects a first portion of the text in the patent/non-patent literature document, and in response to the user selection of the first portion of the text, the search engine automatically highlights at least a second portion of the text in the same patent/non-patent literature document wherein the first portion and the second portion of the text have closest similar contents compared to the rest of the patent/non-patent literature document. | 05-16-2013 |
20130138638 | TEMPORAL VISUALIZATION OF QUERY RESULTS - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for constructing a temporal visualization of query results. That is, query results associated with temporal information, such as timestamps, may be used to create a temporal distribution (e.g., query results comprising images and image capture dates, web pages and web page creation dates, etc.). The temporal distribution may comprise a distribution of the query results over time (e.g., query results may be sorted and/or grouped based upon dates specified by the timestamps). A temporal visualization of the query results may be constructed using the temporal distribution. For example, query results may be assigned to date slots within the temporal visualization. The temporal visualization may illustrate a substantial number of query results (e.g., thousands) that may otherwise not be visually presentable at once. Zoom commands and/or hover commands may be processed to provide finer and/or coarser granularity of the query results. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138639 | Automatic Gleaning of Semantic Information in Social Networks - Disclosed are method and apparatus for identifying members of a social network who have a high likelihood of providing a useful response to a query. A query engine examines the personal pages of a set of members and automatically gleans semantic information relevant to the query. From the automatically-gleaned semantic information, a score indicative of the likelihood that the member may provide a useful response is calculated. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138640 | SEARCHING, SORTING, AND DISPLAYING VIDEO CLIPS AND SOUND FILES BY RELEVANCE - A documents database has a plurality of documents, including but not limited to text files, video clips and sound files. Each document is associated with at least one category of a plurality of categories in a categories database, and each category has at least one keyword. A search request having at least one search term is received from a user, and a categories database is searched for categories having a keyword corresponding to the user search term to identify first level categories. The other keywords from the identified first level categories are retrieved and the documents database is searched for documents having a user search term or a retrieved keyword. The identified documents are then ranked and presented to the user. Other search expansion techniques, and display techniques, are also discussed. | 05-30-2013 |
20130144872 | Semantic and Contextual Searching of Knowledge Repositories - A method for semantic and contextual searching over a knowledge repository. The method includes creating a search query for each concept related to the target concept to form a search context, wherein the search query for each related concept comprises at least one word derived from a record of that concept previously authored in the project, running the search query on a search index of a knowledge repository to identify a record of the related concept for which the search query is created, and fetching the record of the target concept from the repository as a search result such that the fetched record of the target concept is linked in the knowledge repository to a record of the related concept returned as a result of running the search query on at least one record of the at least one related concept. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144873 | EVALUATION OF WEB PAGES - Determining a web page evaluation value includes obtaining a plurality of web pages with the same or approximately the same content; determining a plurality of generation times and a plurality of first evaluation values that correspond to respective ones of the plurality of web pages; identifying a web page among the plurality of web pages that has the earliest generation time; and determining a second evaluation value of the identified web page according to the plurality of first evaluation values. | 06-06-2013 |
20130151513 | PERSISTENT CONTEXTUAL SEARCHES - A badge may be assigned to a person, where the badge represents a characteristic or recurrent behavior of the person. A query may be associated with a badge, and the query may be continually used in a search request in combination with the person's context, thereby allowing the person to be continually provided with fresh results that may be relevant to the person's durable characteristics and current context. In one example, the person carries a handheld device, and the results are presented to the user on the user's desktop or lock screen. The act of providing the results may be triggered in various ways, such as movement of the person who carries the device, or the availability of sufficiently high-quality results. | 06-13-2013 |
20130159298 | SYSTEM AND METHOD PROVIDING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON USER INTERACTION WITH CONTENT - The present disclosure is directed to providing search results based on user interaction with content. A server receives identification of a plurality of clicks of encoded uniform resource locator (URL) links and identifies, for each of the plurality of clicks, data about a user who clicked an encoded URL link and traffic data associated with a device from which the user clicked the encoded URL link. The server may store a record comprising data about the user and traffic data associated with each click. The server may determine, based on the records, a relevancy score for each content identified from decoding the encoded URL links. The server may communicate, responsive to receiving a request to search content based on a keyword, a set of search results based on the keyword and the relevancy score. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159299 | USER INTERFACE METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTING AND PRESENTING CONTENT BASED ON USER RELATIONSHIPS - A user-interface method of selecting and presenting a collection of content items based on user navigation and selection actions associated with the content is provided. The method includes associating a relevance weight on a per user basis with content items to indicate a relative measure of likelihood that the user desires the content item. The method includes receiving a user's navigation and selections actions for identifying desired content items, and in response, adjusting the associated relevance weight of the selected content item and group of content items containing the selected item. The method includes, in response to subsequent user input, selecting and presenting a subset of content items and content groups to the user ordered by the adjusted associated relevance weights assigned to the content items and content groups. | 06-20-2013 |
20130166547 | GENERATING DYNAMIC HIERARCHICAL FACETS FROM BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ARTIFACTS - Systems and methods for generating dynamic hierarchical facets from business intelligence artifacts are described herein. In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, grouping information is extracted from one or more business intelligence artifacts or a semantic layer. Facets or categories are dynamically linked based on the extracted grouping information to generate one or more hierarchical facets. The hierarchical facets may be incorporated in search results to facilitate ease of navigation. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166548 | System and Method for Providing Information Navigation and Filtration - A system and method for information navigation and filtration is provided. One or more query terms are received from a user. A preliminary relevance of one or more objects associated with an enterprise system is determined based on the query terms. The preliminary relevance may be propagated between objects. At least one rating is assigned to the one or more objects based on the preliminary relevance. An overall relevance of the one or more objects is established based on the at least one rating. The one or more objects are ranked according to the overall relevance. Data is provided as search results comprised of the one or more objects according to the ranking to the user. The search results may then be filtered based on at least one selected, dynamically generated filter. The filtered search results may be dynamically generated and provided to the user. | 06-27-2013 |
20130173610 | Extracting Search-Focused Key N-Grams and/or Phrases for Relevance Rankings in Searches - An n-gram and/or phrase extraction model may be trained based at least in part on search-focused information mined from a search-query log. The n-gram and/or phrase extraction model may extract key n-grams and/or phrases from retrieved electronic documents based at least in part on features and/or characteristics of the key n-grams and/or phrases and based at least in part on features and/or characteristics of the search-focused information. The extracted key n-grams and/or phrases may be weighted. A relevancy ranking model may be trained based at least in part on the information extracted by the n-gram and/or phrase extraction model. The relevancy ranking model may provide a relevancy ranking score for electronic documents listed in a search result based at least in part on weights of extracted key n-grams and/or phrases. | 07-04-2013 |
20130185293 | SYSTEM FOR FORENSIC ANALYSIS OF SEARCH TERMS - A “data breach” or loss of sensitive data can cause an organization to lose revenues or suffer other damages. Analyzing data to locate a breach and to identify its source, however, is difficult because the data can come from many sources in an unstructured format and, typically, there is a large amount of data to analyze. A forensic analysis system, according to one embodiment, collects unstructured data from disparate sources, like the Internet, and peer-to-per filesharing and social media networks, and generates structured representations of the data, called virtual profiles. The system forms relationships among the virtual profiles. The system uses the virtual profiles and relationships to reduce the amount of information to be analyzed while including additional information that is related for analysis. By analyzing a smaller amount of related information, a cyber forensic analyst is better able to identify a data breach or other suspicious or illegal activity. | 07-18-2013 |
20130191381 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ORDERING SEARCH RESULTS - Ordering search results may include obtaining an exposed log file from a log system, computing a Bayesian posterior probability for relevancy between the log file and a search request, computing an expected value of the relevancy between the log file and the search request based on the Bayesian posterior probability, storing the search request and an identifier of the log file as a key and the expected value of the relevancy between the log file and the search request as a value into a search data structure, in response to receiving a search request submitted by a user, finding expected values of relevancy between the submitted search request and log files that are relevant to the submitted search request from the search data structure, and ordering the found log files in a descending order of the expected values. | 07-25-2013 |
20130204869 | READING COMPREHENSIBILITY FOR CONTENT SELECTION - Briefly, embodiments of methods or systems to measure or employ reading comprehensibility are described. | 08-08-2013 |
20130212091 | System and Method of Controlling Interactive Communication Services by Responding to User Query with Relevant Information from Content Specific Database - An electronic communication system is controlled by a content service provider to return relevant information from a content specific database in response to a user query. The content service provider compiles a plurality of content specific databases, each dedicated to a category of information of interest to the user. The user registers a user profile with the content service provider. A query, including the selected content specific database, is transmitted from the user to the content service provider. The selected content specific database is searched for the first level query within context of the user profile. A menu of matches is generated from the content specific database for the first level query. The menu is organized by relevance scores assigned to the matches based on correspondence to the first level query. The menu is transmitted from the content service provider through the electronic communication network to the user. | 08-15-2013 |
20130218882 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION FROM A CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method for providing information to a user system from a customer relationship management (CRM) system is disclosed. The method embodiment includes receiving by a server a message from a user that includes a request for recommended information relevant to the user and/or an enterprise, where the message also includes real-time user-specific information collected by and stored on the user's system and/or enterprise-specific information. The method also includes identifying records managed by a CRM system based on the real-time user-specific and/or the enterprise-specific information. A relevance score is determined for each of the identified records based on relevance factors and on social media influence factors, and recommended records are selected based on the relevance scores of the recommended records. Information identifying the recommended records is included in a response message that is transmitted by the server to the user's system. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218883 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION FROM A CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method for providing recommended information relating to an account from a customer relationship management (CRM) system is disclosed. The method embodiment includes receiving by a server a message from a user system associated with a user including a request for information relating to a target account representing a customer, competitor and/or partner of an enterprise, and information identifying the target account. Based on the information identifying the target account, accessible records associated with the enterprise and relating to the target person are identified, and public social media content relating to the target account is collected from social networking entities. A comprehensive account profile associated with the target account is generated based on the accessible records and on the social media content, and at least a portion of the profile is included in a response message that is transmitted by the server to the user system. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218884 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A REVIEW FROM A CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method for providing a review from a customer relationship management (CRM) system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a message including a request for a review relevant to a viewer from a requesting user system associated with a first user, where the message also includes information identifying a review subject and readily available information related to the viewer. Reviews related to the review subject and managed by a CRM system are identified and a relevance score is determined for each of the records based on relevance factors relating to the viewer and to data managed by the CRM system, and social media influence factors relating to social media content from a social networking entity. Recommended reviews are selected based on the relevance scores of the reviews, and information identifying the recommended reviews is included in a response message that is transmitted to the requesting user system. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218885 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTEXT-AWARE MESSAGE TAGGING - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, and methods for context-aware messaging. In various implementations, a conversation between two or more users may be hosted by a communications tool, where the conversation generates text included in a conversation thread. Information and entities may be extracted from the generated text. One or more weights may be assigned to each of the extracted plurality of entities based on the contents of the conversation thread. The one or more weights may provide a rank for each of the extracted entities for a search of at least one information feed. In some implementations, the at least one information feed may be searched based on the weighted extracted entities to identify at least one relevant information feed. The at least one relevant information feed may be updated with the information extracted from the conversation thread. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218886 | Dynamic Presentation of Targeted Information in a Mixed Media Reality Recognition System - A context-aware targeted information delivery system comprises a mobile device, an MMR matching unit, a plurality of databases for user profiles, user context and advertising information, a plurality of comparison engines and a plurality of weight adjusters. The mobile device is coupled to deliver an image patch to the MMR matching unit which in turn performs recognition to produce recognize text. The recognized text is provided to a first and second comparison engines to produce relevant topics and relevant ads. The relevant topics and relevant ads are adjusted with information from a user context database including information such as location, date, time, and other information from a user profile. The third comparison engine compares the relevant topics and relevant ads to produce a set of final ads that are most related to the topics of interest for the user and delivered for display on to the mobile device. | 08-22-2013 |
20130226917 | DOCUMENT SEARCH APPARATUS - A document search apparatus for searching stored document data based on a specified search word is provided with a search word input unit for inputting the search word, a search processing unit for counting the number of times the search word appears in the document data, and a display control unit for changing, based on the number of times the search word appears in the document data counted by the search processing unit, an amount of the document data displayed. The document search apparatus is capable of lightening the burden placed on the user in finding the document of interest and in search refinement by displaying the search result in an easy-to-see graphical layout. | 08-29-2013 |
20130232141 | DETERMINATION OF A SERVICE DESCRIPTION MOST CLOSELY MATCHING A SPECIFIED SERVICE NAME - A method and system for determining a service description that most closely matches a service name. A ranked service name list is generated by use of a name parser, a dictionary, and a name composer, wherein the ranked service name list comprises at least one alternative service name and a respective rank of each alternative service name of the at least one alternative service name, and wherein the respective rank indicates how closely the alternative service name associated with the respective rank resembles the service name provided by the user. It is ascertained that the service description matches the highest ranked alternative service name in the service name list. The service description matching the highest ranked alternative service name is communicated to the user. | 09-05-2013 |
20130246411 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZING TEXT SEARCHES OVER STRUCTURED DATA IN A MULTI-TENANT ENVIRONMENT - Search systems and methods for searching structured data and enhancing the relevancy of search results provided to a requesting user or application. Enhanced search results are provided by searching a cache of a user's most recently used items to eliminate or reduce search indexing latency. Also, more relevant search results are provided by re-ranking results based on use history, data security models and: or hierarchical user role models. Further, enhanced search results are provided by including user information in the search index | 09-19-2013 |
20130254191 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE SEARCH USING BAG OF HASH BITS AND BOUNDARY RERANKING - Determining ranked candidate media in response to media query data corresponding to a query media includes receiving the media query data including feature data of the query media, coordinate data, and boundary data, matching the features with corresponding features of an media database using the feature data to identify features in the media database within a predetermined hamming distance in a hash table from the corresponding features of the query media to obtain matched features in the media database, determining candidate media whose number of matched features exceeds a matched feature threshold, generating a geometry similarity score between the query media and each candidate media using the feature data and the coordinate data, generating a boundary similarity score between the query media and each candidate media using the boundary data, ranking the candidate media based on the numbers of matched features, the geometry similarity scores and the boundary similarity scores. | 09-26-2013 |
20130275422 | SEARCH RESULT PREVIEWS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing search result page previews. In one aspect, a method includes receiving data that specify a set of search results responsive to a search query. Query-relevant content is selected to be included in a page preview for at least one of the search results. In turn, data that cause presentation of the page preview are provided. The data provided can cause presentation of the query-relevant content at an initial zoom level and at a higher zoom level, where the initial zoom level is a zoom level at which both the query-relevant content and other content from the resource are presented. The page preview can include a page tear that defines multiple portions of the page preview for a resource. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275423 | ON-THE-FLY PATTERN RECOGNITION WITH CONFIGURABLE BOUNDS - Some embodiments of on-the-fly pattern recognition with configurable bounds have been presented. In one embodiment, a pattern matching engine is configured based on user input, which may include values of one or more user configurable bounds on searching. Then the configured pattern matching engine is used to search for a set of features in an incoming string. A set of scores is updated based on the presence of any of the features in the string while searching for the features. Each score may indicate a likelihood of the content of the string being in a category. The search is terminated if the end of the string is reached or if the user configurable bounds are met. After terminating the search, the scores are output. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275424 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZING TEXT SEARCHES OVER STRUCTURED DATA IN A MULTI-TENANT ENVIRONMENT - Search systems and methods for searching structured data and enhancing the relevancy of search results provided to a requesting user or application. Enhanced search results are provided by searching a cache of a user's most recently used items to eliminate or reduce search indexing latency. Also, more relevant search results are provided by re-ranking results based on use history, data security models and/or hierarchical user role models. Further, enhanced search results are provided by including user information in the search index | 10-17-2013 |
20130282709 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUERY SUGGESTION - Method, system, and programs for context-based query suggestion are disclosed. A user input is received first. The user input is associated with a request for query suggestion and a page identifier for identifying a page on which a user is browsing. A plurality of page aboutnesses of the page are then fetched from a database based on the received page identifier. A plurality of query suggestions are determined based on the fetched plurality of page aboutnesses. The determined plurality of query suggestions are provided to the user. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282710 | DISPLAYING RESULTS OF KEYWORD SEARCH OVER ENTERPRISE DATA - Techniques are disclosed for presenting semi-structured sets of search results comprising two or more differently-structured subsets of search results. The search results are divided into two or more groups of similarly-structured results. The search results are displayed in their respective groups rather than as a single set. Each group is displayed using a different display structure, in an order determined by a group ranking mechanism. The search results within a group ordered by a result ranking mechanism. Techniques are also disclosed for enhancing a display of similarly structured data by emphasizing highly relevant result fields. The highly relevant result fields may be identified based on metadata ranking mechanisms, uniqueness of their constituent values, historical feedback, keyword location, and/or other mechanisms. The fields are emphasized using, without limitation, highlighting, reordering, and filtering of unemphasized fields from the display. | 10-24-2013 |
20130290323 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY ASSOCIATING TAGS WITH FILES IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM - Systems and methods are provided for automatically associating tags with files in a computer system. In one method, the method comprises receiving a search request from a user containing a search keyword; retrieving results including one or more files responsive to the search request; receiving file information and the user's previous access information about the one or more files; selecting at least one eligible file from the one or more files based on the access information and the file information; identifying at least one tag based on at least one of the search keyword, the access information, and the file information; associating the tag with the eligible file; and storing the association of the tag with the eligible file. | 10-31-2013 |
20130304731 | BEHAVIOR TARGETING SOCIAL RECOMMENDATIONS - A process for generating social recommendations is provided. For each user, a user profile index is accessed to determine reading interests of the user. Further, relevance matching is performed to determine matching users having at least one publishing interest that is relevant to the reading interests of the user. Next, the matching users are ranked. Based on the ranking, one or more top ranked matching user(s) are determined. Additionally, a social recommendation for each of the top ranked matching user(s) is enabled to be made to the user. | 11-14-2013 |
20130311462 | METHOD AND SYSTEM RELATING TO RE-LABELLING MULTI-DOCUMENT CLUSTERS - Individuals receive overwhelming barrage of information which must be filtered, processed, analysed, reviewed, consolidated and distributed or acted upon. However, prior art tools for automatically processing content, such as for example returning search results from an Internet or database search for example are ineffective. Prior art search techniques merely provide large numbers of “hits” with at most removal of multiple occurrences of identical items. However, it would be beneficial to present searches as a series of multi-document clusters wherein occurrences of commonly themed content are clustered allowing the user to rapidly see the number of different themes and review a selected theme. Further, it would be beneficial, in repeated searches, for new clusters to be identified automatically as well as new items of content associated with existing clusters to be associated to these clusters. | 11-21-2013 |
20130318079 | Relevance Analysis of Electronic Calendar Items - A user's electronic calendar may be analyzed to identify those calendar items that relate to a specific topic or classification. The classification may identify, for example, business or personal items, or items relating to a specific project, task, or other classification. The analysis may classify calendar items by a set of heuristics as well as by associations between calendar items and with other databases. The associations may include analysis of a user's contact list, social networks, and other information. | 11-28-2013 |
20130325857 | Method and Apparatus of Ordering Search Results - Ordering search results may include obtaining an exposed log file from a log system, computing a Bayesian posterior probability for relevancy between the log file and a search request, computing an expected value of the relevancy between the log file and the search request based on the Bayesian posterior probability, storing the search request and an identifier of the log file as a key and the expected value of the relevancy between the log file and the search request as a value into a search data structure, in response to receiving a search request submitted by a user, finding expected values of relevancy between the submitted search request and log files that are relevant to the submitted search request from the search data structure, and ordering the found log files in a descending order of the expected values. | 12-05-2013 |
20140006393 | Ranking Search Results Using an Entity Network | 01-02-2014 |
20140012841 | WEIGHT-BASED STEMMING FOR IMPROVING SEARCH QUALITY - A technique including receiving a search query; identifying a first original query term based on the query; identifying a first expanded query term related to the first original query term; determining a first lexical distance between the first original query term and the first expanded query term; determining a first weight for the first expanded query term based on the determined first lexical distance; identifying a plurality of documents, from among a corpus of documents, as each relevant to the search query, the plurality of documents including a first document identified based on its inclusion of the first expanded query term; ranking the plurality of documents, with the ranking of the first document being based upon the calculated first weight; and generating a response to the search query identifying two or more of the plurality of documents, ordered according to the ranking. | 01-09-2014 |
20140025672 | SEARCH METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present disclosure discloses a search method and system. A method obtains a first search result set of first search results relevant to query data submitted by a client. According to a first relevance score and a preset diversity field of each first search result in the first search result set, a second relevance score of each first search result is calculated. The preset diversity field represents an attribute category of a respective first search result. According to the first relevance score and the second relevance score, a relevance parameter score for each first search result is generated. According to a preset number of second search results and the relevance parameter score, the present number of second search results are extracted from the first search result set to display to the client. The technique achieves lower consumption of system resources, faster computation speed and more flexibility in diversification of search results. | 01-23-2014 |
20140032544 | Method for refining the results of a search within a database - A method refines the results of a search for objects within a database containing a set of objects each associated with a descriptor. The method includes a step of presenting to a user the set of objects, and a part of the objects is associated with a clickable image for a user to signal the relevance or non-relevance of the said object in relation to the user's search. The method further includes a step of assigning a weight to descriptors of an object and another step of calculating a resultant of the weights. The calculating step is followed by the step of initializing a relevance index for each result object and the step of comparing each result object to the resultant and presenting to the user the result objects in the order of relevance index. | 01-30-2014 |
20140040254 | IDENTIFYING WEB PAGES OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB HAVING RELEVANCE TO A FIRST FILE BY COMPARING RESPONSES FROM ITS MULTIPLE AUTHORS - Methods and systems for providing related web pages are disclosed. One method includes identifying a plurality of web pages, wherein the plurality of web pages each have a relationship with the first file, wherein the world wide web provides a platform for sharing web pages, and wherein each web page includes a document or information resource that is suitable for the world wide web and is accessible through a web browser. The method further includes generating a list of inquiries based on the plurality of web pages, providing, the list of inquiries to at least one author of the first file, receiving from the at least one author at least one response to the list of inquiries, selecting a subset of the plurality of web pages based on the at least one response, and storing information related to the selected subset of the plurality of web pages. | 02-06-2014 |
20140052718 | SOCIAL RELEVANCE TO INFER INFORMATION ABOUT POINTS OF INTEREST - Architecture that facilitates relevance analysis for user queries for items of interest (e.g., businesses) for which social relevance (the composition of people frequenting the business) of the environment. The social relevance can be determined based on social data related to other people using techniques such as cross referencing social distance, social network activities with geolocation and check-in data, time/date information associated with social content, and text mining to inform and validate conclusions. The social relevance of many users and historical trends of the data can be combined to compute scores for the items of interest. Additionally, the social relevance of persons currently visiting the business can be used to compute a current score. Predictions can be computed for specific points in time in the future. The techniques can augment, filter, and/or add “coolness” information to search results, within a general purpose, a local-oriented search page or an application. | 02-20-2014 |
20140067798 | SCORING RECORDS FOR SORTING BY USER-SPECIFIC WEIGHTS BASED ON RELATIVE IMPORTANCE - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and program product for managing records in a storage device. Responsive to receiving a search query, a computer determines a result set for the search query including one or more one records from a record storage device, and determines whether the one or more records contain a link to a profile associated to an individual in a corporate directory. Responsive to determining that the one or more records contain the link to the profile associated with the individual in the corporate directory, the computer accesses the corporate directory and determines a corporate standing of the individual in the corporate directory. Responsive to determining the corporate standing of the individual in the corporate directory, the computer determines a relevancy score for the corporate standing of the individual in the corporate directory. | 03-06-2014 |
20140081962 | DETERMINING CONCEPTS ASSOCIATED WITH A QUERY - Determining one or more concepts associated with a query is disclosed. A query is received. A list of concepts and associated scores is received. The concepts fit within a concept hierarchy. A density function is used to evaluate the received concepts. One or more concepts are associated with the query based at least in part on the results of the density function. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081963 | IDENTIFICATION OF FILES OF A COLLABORATIVE FILE STORAGE SYSTEM HAVING RELEVANCE TO A FIRST FILE - Methods and systems for providing related files in a collaborative file storage system are disclosed. One method includes identifying a plurality of files within the collaborative file storage system, wherein the plurality of files each have a relationship with the first file, and wherein the collaborative file storage system allows sharing of the plurality of files between multiple users through a network. The method further includes generating, by a system server, a list of inquiries based on the plurality of files, providing, by the system server, the list of inquiries to at least one collaborator of the first file, receiving from the at least one collaborator at least one response to the list of inquiries, selecting a subset of the plurality of files based on the at least one response, and storing information related to the selected subset of the plurality of files for access if the first file is selected. | 03-20-2014 |
20140089304 | Personalizing an Online Service Based on Data Collected for a User of a Computing Device - An Internet or other online service is personalized or customized based on data collected for a user of a computing device. In one embodiment, a method includes: storing a plurality of person profiles for persons associated with communications received by a user of a computing device; receiving data associated with an online service; and filtering, using at least one processor, the data based on the plurality of person profiles, wherein the filtered data is for display to the user on the computing device. | 03-27-2014 |
20140095493 | DOCUMENT RELEVANCY ANALYSIS WITHIN MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEMS - Systems and methods that quantify document relevance for a document relative to a training corpus and select a best match or best matches are provided herein. Methods may include generating an example-based explanation for relevancy of a document to a training corpus by executing a support vector machine classifier, the support vector machine classifier performing a centroid classification of a relevant document in a term frequency-inverse document frequency features space relative to training examples in a training corpus, and generating an example-based explanation by selecting a best match for the relevant document from the training examples based upon the centroid classification. | 04-03-2014 |
20140101145 | DYNAMIC CAPTIONS FROM SOCIAL STREAMS - Architecture that augments a search result entry caption with keywords related to topics currently being shared and discussed in other social network information sources. This can provide a much better idea of the content of the website or webpage. The architecture obtains a link from updates of social topics of social network information sources (e.g., social networks for people places professionals, etc.), extracts title content of a document title associated with the link, compares the title content to document text for similarity to create non-duplicative content, creates keywords related to popular social topics from the non-duplicative content, and then augments a search result entry of a search result page with the keywords of the popular social topics. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101146 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR DISCOVERING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ENTITIES BASED ON COMMON AREAS OF INTEREST - A method for generating a relevance score for at least one candidate retrieved in a search, the method comprising: initiating a query seeking at least one the candidate based upon at least one filter selected from the group consisting of: product name, product category, company name, HS code, SIC code and any other product-related qualifier; searching at least one database for matches between the candidate and the filter, thereby generating at least one matched candidate; generating an initial relevance score for each the matched candidate; generating at least one additional score for each the matched candidate, wherein the additional score is at least one selected from the group consisting of: a reputation score, a score boost, a past behavior score, a profile match score, a preference match score and a web behavior score; and generating a final relevance score based upon the initial relevance score and the at least one additional score for each the matched candidate. | 04-10-2014 |
20140114967 | SPREADING COMMENTS TO OTHER DOCUMENTS - A server device is configured to receive a comment associated with a first document, the comment corresponding to a first portion of the first document; identify a second document that includes a second portion that matches the first portion of the first document; and store the comment in association with the first document and the second document. The server device is further configured to receive, from a client device, information that the client device is accessing the second document, and transmit the comment for presentation in connection with the second document on a display associated with the client device. | 04-24-2014 |
20140122470 | HIERARCHICAL RANKING OF FACIAL ATTRIBUTES - In response to a query of discernable facial attributes, the locations of distinct and different facial regions are estimated from face image data, each relevant to different attributes. Different features are extracted from the estimated facial regions from database facial images, which are ranked in base layer rankings as a function of relevance of extracted features to attributes relevant to the estimated regions, and in second-layer rankings as a function of combinations of the base layer rankings and relevance of the extracted features to common ones of the attributes relevant to the estimated regions. The images are ranked in relevance to the query as a function of the second-layer rankings. | 05-01-2014 |
20140129554 | 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. | 05-08-2014 |
20140136531 | Managing Delivery of Contextual Content - Techniques for managing an enterprise portal workspace include identifying user context data in the enterprise portal workspace; querying, based on the user context data, a semantic network including nodes and edges, identifying at least a subset of the plurality of content items based on a match of the user context data and the metadata attributes of the plurality of content items; ranking the identified subset of the plurality of content items based on the match of the user context data and the metadata attributes of the plurality of content items; and preparing the ranked subset of the plurality of content items to display to the user in a virtual workspace of the enterprise portal workspace. | 05-15-2014 |
20140143243 | INFINITE BROWSE - An online article is enhanced by displaying, in association with the article, supplemental content that includes entities that are extracted from the article and/or entities that are related to entities that are extracted from the article. The supplemental content further includes information about each of the entities. The information about an entity may be obtained by searching for the entity in one or more searchable repositories of data. For example, the supplemental content may include, for each entity, video, image, web, and/or news search results. The supplemental content may further include information such as stock quotes, abstracts, maps, scores, and so on. The entities are selected using a variety of analyses and ranking techniques based on contextual factors such as user-specific information, time-sensitive popularity trends, grammatical features, search result quality, and so on. The entities may further be selected for purposes such as generating ad-based revenue. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143244 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING FOR CONTENT WITHIN A CHANNEL BASED ON CONTEXTUAL CHARACTERISTICS - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to conduct a search within one or more channels and to produce search results based not only upon one or more search tokens, but also contextual characteristics, such as contextual characteristics provided by a user and/or contextual characteristics associated with the one or more channels. For example, a method is provided that receives input defining a search to be conducted within at least one channel. The input defining the search includes at least one search token and at least one context element. The method also causes a search request to be issued that includes a description of the search. Further, the method receives search results based upon the at least one search token and a combination of the at least one context element that was received and/or at least one context element that is defined by the respective channel. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143245 | SEARCH RESULTS DISPLAY METHOD, DEVICE, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM - The application provides a search results display method, device, system and a computer storage medium, the method includes: acquiring ordering factors and corresponding ordering weight information in response to a first selection operation of the user; determining an order of the search results according to the ordering factors and corresponding ordering weight information; and displaying the search results after adjusting the order. The present application can flexibly fit the individualized search intention of the user. | 05-22-2014 |
20140149403 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND VISUALIZING ELEMENTS OF QUERY RESULTS - The systems and methods described herein generally relate to increasing user productivity in reviewing query results by visually depicting the presence/absence of a set of query terms in a set of paragraphs across a set of documents. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149404 | System and Method for Finding Desired Results by Incremental Search Using an Ambiguous Keypad with the Input Containing Orthographic and/or Typographic Errors - A system for finding and presenting content items in response to keystrokes entered by a user on an input device having a known layout of overloaded keys selected from a set of key layouts. The system includes a database containing content items and terms characterizing the content items; input logic for receiving keystrokes from the user and building a string corresponding to incremental entries by the user, each item in the string having the set of alphanumeric symbols associated with a corresponding keystroke; mapping logic to map the string to the database to find the most likely content items corresponding to the incremental entries, the mapping logic operating in accordance with a defined error model corresponding to the known layout of overloaded keys; and presentation logic for ordering the most likely content items identified by the mapping logic and for presenting the most likely content items. | 05-29-2014 |
20140172845 | SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEM WITH RELEVANCE SEARCHING - A social network system that provides a keyword search result set from content within the social network receives from an enterprise application a business object and an associated system of record, and generates a social object for the social network, where the social object corresponds to the business object and associated system of record. The system generates a plurality of conversations related to the social object, where each conversation comprises content. The system indexes each of the conversations as a conversation document and receives a keyword search term. The system then searches for the keyword search term within the conversation documents, and generates a result set of relevant conversations in response to the searching, where the relevant conversations are displayed in order of relevance. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172846 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVEMENT OF RELEVANCE OF SEARCH RESULTS - A system and method for improving the relevance of search results is disclosed. Voters who may be human searchers or guides may review search results or other review items associated with a search request or other reference item. A review may be activated based on a usage indicator(s) which may improve utilization of guides. A vote by a voter may be weighted based on a voting history associated with the voter and one or more reference voters who may be designated by the system. A voter may be presented with a group of items for review including simultaneously. A number of comparison voting sessions or elections may be used to determine a rating or ranking of a review item associated with a reference item. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172847 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CULTURALLY-RELEVANT SEARCH RESULTS TO USERS - Search results may be provided to a user. A search query may be received from the user. A query feature vector may be formed for the search query. The query feature vector may be compared with news feature vectors associated with documents related to current events. An augmented query feature vector may be formed based on results of the comparison of the query feature vector with the news feature vectors. The augmented query feature vector may be compared with feature vectors related to target documents. Search results that include target documents may be identified based on results of the comparison of the augmented query feature vector with the feature vectors related to the target documents. The user may be made able to perceive at least some of the identified search results. | 06-19-2014 |
20140181097 | PROVIDING ORGANIZED CONTENT - Systems and methods for providing organized content are described herein. In one example, a method includes identifying a spine document from a collection of documents, wherein the spine document comprises a plurality of sections. The method also includes splitting a related document into a plurality of subdocuments. In addition, the method includes mapping the subdocuments to corresponding sections of the spine document. Furthermore, the method includes displaying subdocuments based on a search of the collection of documents. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181098 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RETRIEVAL OF EXPERTS BASED ON USER CUSTOMIZABLE SEARCH AND RANKING PARAMETERS - Methods and systems for finding experts based upon user customizable search and ranking criteria, and providing the search results at a person or expert level are disclosed. The methods generally entail cataloging data within one or more document databases, and includes the steps of (a) inputting disparate data sources which may include publications, awarded grants, clinical trials, and/or patents; (b) processing the data within each document in the document database(s); (c) creating a document profile for each document using relevant keywords; (d) assigning weighting factors to the relevant keywords based upon selected attributes; (e) assigning an identifier to each document and document author; (f) removing duplicate document data using a disambiguation algorithm; (g) extracting author level attributes from the retrieved documents; and (h) creating or updating each document profile. The method steps may be implemented using a system of computer servers communicatively linked to a plurality of clients via a global network. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181099 | USER MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - Described is the user management of electronic documents. Content selected from a first electronic document is received. Metadata are generated corresponding to the received selected content and a location of the received content in the first electronic document. The metadata are stored and a search term is subsequently received that is also in the received content. In response to a search against a repository, search results are displayed. The search results include an indicator of the first electronic document and an indicator of a second electronic document that includes the search term. The indicator of the first electronic document is displayed higher in the search results than the second electronic document. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181100 | Predictive Text Completion For A Mobile Communication Facility - A system predicts a search query term, wherein the prediction is based at least in part on a plurality of keystrokes entered on a mobile communication facility and wherein the prediction is further based at least in part on information relating to the mobile communication facility and/or its user. | 06-26-2014 |
20140188862 | Search Result Snippets for Structured Search Queries - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges, receiving a structured query that includes references to selected nodes and edges, and generating search results corresponding to the structured query, where the search results include at least one snippet that includes references to the selected nodes and edges of the structured query. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188863 | EFFICIENTLY IDENTIFYING IMAGES, VIDEOS, SONGS OR DOCUMENTS MOST RELEVANT TO THE USER BASED ON ATTRIBUTE FEEDBACK - A method, system and computer program product for efficiently identifying images, videos, audio files or documents relevant to a user. Using either manual annotations or learned functions, the method predicts the relative strength of an attribute in an image, video, audio file or document from a pool of images, videos, audio files or documents. At query time, the system presents an initial set of reference images, videos, audio files or documents, and the user selects among them to provide relative attribute feedback. Using the resulting constraints in the multi-dimensional attribute space, the relevance function for the pool of images, videos, audio files or documents is updated and the relevance of the pool of images, videos, audio files or documents is re-computed. This procedure iterates using the accumulated constraints until the top-ranked images, videos, audio files or documents are acceptably close to the user's envisioned image, video, audio file or document. | 07-03-2014 |
20140222804 | USING A WEARABLE DEVICE TO PREDICT AN INDIVIDUALS TYPE AND RESPONSE TO CONTENT - The methods and systems described herein may involve determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and delivering content to at least one individual based on the analysis. The methods and systems described herein may involve providing a game, determining at least one lifeotype of at least one player of the game, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and affecting the game play based on the analysis. The methods and systems described herein may involve providing an interactive space, determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual in the space, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and modifying at least one attribute of the space based on the analysis. | 08-07-2014 |
20140236939 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TOPICAL GROUPING OF SEARCH RESULTS AND ORGANIZING OF SEARCH RESULTS - Embodiments include a method for providing two or more search results. The method can include receiving at least one search parameter from a search query of a first user. The method also can include determining potential search results based upon the at least one search parameter. The method further can include determining one or more related searches from one or more second users. The method also can include determining two or more search results at least partially based upon the at least one search parameter and the one or more related searches. The method additionally can include determining that the two or more search results are related to a topic. The method further can include organizing the two or more search results based upon the topic. The method also can include displaying the two or more search results to the first user. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 08-21-2014 |
20140250115 | Prototype-Based Re-Ranking of Search Results - A prototype-based re-ranking method may re-rank search results to provide a re-ranked set of search results. In response to receiving one or more queries, a set of search results may be generated whereby each of the search results may be associated with a rank position. Based at least in part on the search results, one or more prototypes may be generated that visually represent the one or more queries or the search results. The one or more prototypes may be used to construct one or more meta re-rankers that may generate re-ranking scores for the search results. The re-ranking scores may be aggregated to produce a final relevance score for each search result included in the set of search results. Based at least in part on the relevance score of each search result and/or a learned re-ranking model, a set of re-ranked search results may be provided. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250116 | IDENTIFYING TIME SENSITIVE AMBIGUOUS QUERIES - A system and method for generating search results includes: receiving a search query with a search term; parsing the search term; determining that at least a portion of the parsed search term is an ambiguous, time-sensitive query; retrieving an intended search term according to a current time of day from a data store when it is determined that at least a portion of the parsed search term is an ambiguous, time-sensitive query; and preparing a search results page such that search results more closely matching the derived intended search term are placed in a most prominent position on the search results page. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250117 | QUERY-BASED USER GROUPS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Implementations of the present disclosure include obtaining one or more queries, processing data stored in a data store based on at least one query of the one or more queries to identify a plurality of users, the plurality of users sharing a commonality that is a subject of the at least one query, generating one or more query-based social circles, the plurality of users populating a query-based social circle of the one or more query-based social circles, the query-based social circle being directed to the commonality and defining a distribution list for distributing digital content provided by one or more users of the plurality of users, and transmitting social circle data corresponding to the query-based social circle to display a representation of the query-based social circle to at least one user of the plurality of users. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250118 | INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information retrieval method for retrieving documents relevant to a user's search inquiry from documents stored in the storage device using an arithmetic operation. The method includes receiving from a user a search query including a plurality of keywords, calculating relevance to a plurality of documents on the basis of the plurality of keywords and the influence set for each keyword, and displaying on the display device documents in the order of relevance. The method also includes displaying on the display device the influence set for each keyword, receiving changes to the displayed influence by the user, and recalculating the relevance on the basis of a change to the influence and displaying on the display device documents in the order of relevance. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250119 | DOMAIN BASED KEYWORD SEARCH - A database keyword search technique that relies on a domain based storage infrastructure is disclosed. In operation, a keyword search string is processed to generate a set of search string permutations. Each string permutation specifies a different ordering of one or more portions of the search string. A domain based search process is then executed asynchronously for each string permutation. Each execution generates a search result set that identifies rows in the database that include data relevant to the string permutation. The results in each result set are scored and ranked based in part on the similarity between the string permutation and the search string provided by the user. The rankings determine which of the results are to be presented to the user. | 09-04-2014 |
20140258283 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND FILE SEARCHING METHOD USING THE COMPUTING DEVICE - In a file searching method using a computing device, the computing device connects to one or more terminal devices. An electronic file is obtained from a database when a file name is inputted from one of the terminal devices, and the file is analyzed to obtain a title and text content of the file. One or more keywords are extracted from each of the text content of the file using a term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) rule. One or more interested terms are obtained from the keywords according to an importance factor of each of the keywords. The method obtains search results from the database according to the interested terms, and ranks the files according to a relevance degree between each file in the search results and the interested terms. The computing device sends the files with a ranking order to the terminal device. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258284 | Method and Apparatus for Organizing Segments of Media Assets and Determining Relevance of Segments to a Query - The invention pertains to methods, systems, and apparatus for identifying media items relevant to a selected subject matter, the method comprising determining the subject matter of a first media item, the first media item comprising at least one of audio content and video content, determining the classification within an ontology of the subject matter of the first media item, analyzing the ontology to identify other subject matter related to the subject matter of the first media item, and performing a search for other media items relevant to the subject matter of the first media item as a function of at least the other related subject matter according to the ontology. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258285 | USER INTERFACE FOR SEARCH METHOD AND SYSTEM - A user interface for searching records in a database is provided. Each record contains information regarding one or more categories. The user interface receives search criteria of one or more categories and provides search results comprising exact and/or non-exact matching records. A non-exact matching record has a relevance value representing the relevance of the record to the search query, the non-exact matching records being displayed in an ordering based on the relevance values. The user interface provides slider tools for receiving changes in a weight value or search criterion of an associated category. A new ordering of the non-exact matching records is displayed in real-time based on the new received weight values or search criterion. The user interface may also provide a mapping tool, a search-result selection function, and/or one or more drill down tools. The user interface may provide any tool or function alone or in any combination. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258286 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS - System and method for providing answers to questions based on any corpus of data implements a method that generates a number of candidate passages from the corpus that answer an input query, and finds the correct resulting answer by collecting supporting evidence from the multiple passages. By analyzing all retrieved passages and that passage's metadata in parallel, an output plurality of data structures is generated including candidate answers based upon the analyzing. Then, supporting passage retrieval operations are performed upon the set of candidate answers, and for each candidate answer, the data corpus is traversed to find those passages having candidate answer in addition to query terms. All candidate answers are automatically scored by a plurality of scoring modules, each producing a module score. The modules scores are processed to determine one or more query answers; and, a query response is generated based on the one or more query answers. | 09-11-2014 |
20140280108 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR IMPLEMENTING AN INTERFACE TO VIEW AND EXPLORE SOCIALLY RELEVANT CONCEPTS OF AN ENTITY GRAPH - There are provided means for implementing an interface to view and explore socially relevant concepts of an entity graph including, for example, means of a social network system to perform operations including retrieving contextually relevant data for a plurality of concepts within an entity graph of the social network system; retrieving socially relevant data for a user's node within a social graph of the social network system; identifying intersects between the plurality of concepts within the entity graph and the social relevant data for the user's node within the social graph; selecting one of the plurality of concepts within the entity graph based on the intersects identified; and displaying the one of the plurality of concepts within the entity graph at a user interface associated with the user's node. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280109 | User-Guided Term Suggestions - Methods and apparatus related to providing user-guided term suggestions. Some implementations may be directed to identifying user input that includes at least one term and identifying a user-initiated activity near the term. An edit term may be identified based on the user-initiated activity near the term, an edit position in the edit term may be identified, and one or more candidate terms may be identified based on the edit term. Similarity measures for the candidate terms may be determined. The similarity measure of a given candidate term of the candidate terms may be based on the edit position. One or more of the candidate terms may be selected as suggested terms based on the similarity measures and the selected suggested terms provided for potential replacement of the edit term. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280110 | REQUESTS FOR SOURCE CODE TEXT - Disclosed herein are a system, non-transitory computer readable medium and method for fulfilling requests for source code. A description is associated with each section of source code text. A section of source code, whose description at least partially matches a source code request, is obtained and displayed. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280111 | PROMOTING AN ORIGINAL VERSION OF A COPYRIGHTED MEDIA ITEM OVER AN AUTHORIZED COPIED VERSION OF THE COPYRIGHTED MEDIA ITEM IN A SEARCH QUERY - Systems and methods promoting an authoritative version (AVR) of copyrighted media content over one or more non-authoritative versions of the copyrighted media content relative to relevancy of the copyrighted media content to a search query are presented. An example system includes a matching component configured to identify copyrighted media content included in a video and a promoting component configured to promote in connection with a search query an authoritative version of the copyrighted media content over one or more non-authoritative versions of the copyrighted media content relative to relevancy of the copyrighted media content to the search query | 09-18-2014 |
20140280112 | SEARCH RESULT RANKING BY DEPARTMENT - Systems and methods are disclosed herein for providing search results, particularly product records from a product database. Past queries are analyzed and grouped into clusters according to similarities with one another. For an individual query, relevant search results are identified and departments corresponding thereto are also identified. Confidence scores are determined for the identified departments and if one or more departments have confidence scores above a threshold, the search results are filtered based thereon. If not, then departments corresponding to a query cluster relevant to the query are selected. Additional departments may also be selected based on the number of search results corresponding to the additional departments. Search results filtered according to one or more selected departments are transmitted to an author of the query. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280113 | CONTEXT BASED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING MEDIA FILE ANNOTATION RECOMMENDATIONS - A context based tag recommendation system for annotating stock photography media files, the system configured to: maintain a first database comprising a set of media files and a set of annotations associated with the media file set, maintain a second database comprising a second set of records, each record comprising an annotation, at least one co-occurring annotation, and a count, receive at least one media file tag input (input), query the second database using the input to identify a ranked set of co-occurring annotations and a count associated with each annotation in the ranked set of co-occurring annotations, query the first database to identify a selected set of similar media files, by iteratively retrieving image files associated a selective group of annotations from the ranked set of co-occurring annotations, present a list of recommended annotations based on the ranked set of co-occurring annotations and the selected set of similar media files. | 09-18-2014 |
20140289238 | DOCUMENT CREATION SUPPORT APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a document creation support apparatus includes a determination unit, a search unit and a presentation unit. The determination unit determines a document type that is a type of a document containing a target character string, based on feature values including a first character recognition result and a first position information item. The search unit searches, if a search condition for searching for relevant character strings is satisfied, one or more databases for the relevant character strings to obtain the relevant character strings in order of decreasing score based on priorities, each of the priorities being set to each of the one or more databases according to the document type. The presentation unit presents the relevant character strings in order of decreasing the score. | 09-25-2014 |
20140297631 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYTICS - A system, device, and method may include a network interface device configured to be communicatively coupled to a user interface. An electronic data storage may be configured to store social network data related to users having accessed a social network content item A processor, coupled to the network interface device and the electronic data storage, may be configured to identify a relationship among at least some of the users, determine a relevance of the relationship to a member of the social network associated with the social network content item based, at least in part, on a social network profile of the member and social network profiles of the users, and cause the network interface device to display, on the user interface, information related to the relationship on the user interface based, at least in part, on the relevance. | 10-02-2014 |
20140304260 | CONTACT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - Via a graphical user interface, a user can select multiple different services (e.g., remote repositories such as websites) having contact information associated with the user's contacts (e.g., friends, Internet buddies, friends of friends, acquaintances, etc.). Based on the selection of multiple services, the contact information manager communicates with the multiple services over a network to retrieve the contact information associated with the user's friends (i.e., contacts). The retrieved contact information can specify identities of the multiple contacts as well as different communication modes (e.g., phone, e-mail, addresses information, whereabouts information, etc.) for communicating with the user's contacts. The contact information manager processes the contact information from the multiple services and initiates display of the contact information in a unified listing. Accordingly, via the contact information manager, a user can more efficiently manage contact information obtained from multiple disparate locations over a network. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304261 | Web Page Ranking Method, Apparatus and Program Product - Web pages accessed as results obtained from search engines which locate documents or web pages or web sites in a computer network (e.g., a distributed system of computer systems), are displayed in a ranked order. The ranked order improves the relevance of displayed web pages to a search inquiry entered by a user of an end user device such as a personal computer system, a tablet, a smartphone or other device. The method, apparatus and program product identifies reference pages based on source code analysis; how many times any page is referred in different pages; and what amount of content is referred in any document. The reputation of any referred page is assessed. This information is used to calculate a score of any web page, with a better score resulting in higher ranking. | 10-09-2014 |
20140310270 | RELEVANCE-BASED CUTOFF FOR SEARCH RESULTS - A computer-implemented method is disclosed for cutting off listings or search results. In the method, a computer system may receive a query from a client computer. In response to the query, the computer system may compile listings ranked according to corresponding relevance scores. Thereafter, the computer system may calculate a cutoff score that is less than a maximum relevance score corresponding to the listings. For example, the computer system may calculate a cutoff score by multiplying a maximum relevance score corresponding to the listings by a weighting. In selected embodiments, the weighting may be greater than 0.05 and less than 0.5. The computer system may then serve to the client computer as a response to the query a subset of the listings. The subset may comprise those listings corresponding to a relevance score greater than the cutoff score. | 10-16-2014 |
20140317104 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Visual Search Construction, Document Triage, and Coverage Tracking - A computer-implemented system and method for visual search construction, document triage, and coverage tracking is provided. One or more search topics are received from a user. The search topics are positioned along a graph to generate a query. A search for resulting topics that are related to one or more of the search topics is conducted using the query. The topic results are displayed in the graph in relation to the placed search topics of the query. | 10-23-2014 |
20140330821 | RECOMMENDING CONTEXT BASED ACTIONS FOR DATA VISUALIZATIONS - A data visualization application recommends context based actions for data visualizations. The application displays a visualization of a dataset. In response to detecting a query request associated with the visualization, contextual information for the data is used to construct a query. The application submits the query to search services for search indexes, structured data, and unstructured data. The returned results are displayed in summary format using actionable items. The actionable items update the visualization or provide new visualizations representing the results. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330822 | SEARCH WITH JOINT IMAGE-AUDIO QUERIES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing joint image-audio queries. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a client device, a joint image-audio query including query image data and query audio data. Query image feature data is determined from the query image data. Query audio feature data is determined from the audio data. The query image feature data and the query audio feature data are provided to a joint image-audio relevance model trained to generate relevance scores for a plurality of resources, each resource including resource image data defining a resource image for the resource and text data defining resource text for the resource. Each relevance score is a measure of the relevance of corresponding resource to the joint image-audio query. Data defining search results indicating the order of the resources is provided to the client device. | 11-06-2014 |
20140337332 | SEARCH AND SEARCH OPTIMIZATION USING A PATTERN OF A LOCATION IDENTIFIER - Systems and methods for search and search optimization using a pattern in a location identifier is disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of search and search optimization. The method includes, detecting a set of location identifiers that have a pattern that matches a specified pattern and identifying a set of search results as having content related to the semantic type. The specified pattern can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium and corresponds to a semantic type. The set of search results can include objects associated with the set of location identifiers having the specified pattern. | 11-13-2014 |
20140358913 | HIERARCHICAL ENTITY INFORMATION FOR SEARCH - A fast browsing architecture for exploring hierarchical lists of entities through a search user interface. A graphical UI operates to handle the hierarchical lists and sub-lists in different ways for different scenarios such as a hierarchical level is zero (only one list of entities associated with a query and the list cannot be further drilled down), a second scenario where the hierarchical level is one (a list of entities associated with the query and these entities can be further drilled down to a number of sub-lists) and the sub-lists cannot be further drilled down, and a third scenario where the hierarchical level is more than one (a list of entities associated with the query and these entities can be further drilled down to a number of sub-lists), sub-lists can be further drilled down to a number of lists, until there is no more drill down lists to be found. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358914 | SEARCH METHOD, SEARCH DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Disclosed are a search method, a search device and a storage medium. The method comprises obtaining all relevant documents of information to be sought; calculating a relevancy between each relevant document and the information to be sought based on a word matching algorithm and a semantics matching algorithm; performing sequencing processing on all the relevant documents according to the relevancy obtained through calculation, and displaying a sequencing result. Further disclosed is a search device. The present invention comprehensively considers matching between words, and matching of the semantics relationship between words, obtains an accurate relevancy calculation result, provides an ideal search result to a user, and improves satisfaction of the user. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358915 | DETERMINATION OF A SERVICE DESCRIPTION MOST CLOSELY MATCHING A SPECIFIED SERVICE NAME - A method and system for determining a service description most closely matching a service name provided by a user. It is determined that the service name provided by the user is not an exact match to a service name in a service registry that comprises service names and associated service descriptions. A ranked service name is generated and includes at least one alternative service name and a respective rank of each alternative service name. The respective rank indicates how closely the alternative service name associated with the respective rank resembles the service name provided by the user. It is ascertained that a service description associated with a service name in the service registry that either matches the highest ranked alternative service name in the service name list or matches the next highest ranked alternative service name in the service name list. The ascertained service description is communicated to the user. | 12-04-2014 |
20140365480 | PERSONALIZED LOW LATENCY COMMUNICATION - Embodiments relate to personalized low latency communications. A method may include receiving a description of content of a message, receiving recipient data corresponding to at least two possible recipients within a population of possible recipients, and selecting a relevant subpopulation of the population. The selecting may include, for each of the at least two possible recipients, ranking a strength of an indirect relationship between the description and the recipient data. The indirect relationship may be based on the description, the recipient data and at least one additional data source. The selecting may also include, for each of the at least two possible recipients, adding a possible recipient to the relevant subpopulation based on the ranking of the indirect relationship associated with the possible recipient. The method may further include initiating a two-way communication channel between a sender of the message and the relevant subpopulation. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365481 | SEMANTIC GROUPING IN SEARCH - A system and method are disclosed for intelligent grouping and presentation of search results. In embodiments, the present technology groups results into relevant categories, and presents the categorized results on a single screen or small set of screens. The most relevant results for each category may be displayed in graphical tiles that a user may select to view more details on the search results. Alternatively, a user may select, or pivot on, a category heading to get more results for a given category. | 12-11-2014 |
20140379708 | Diversity Within Search Results - Increasing diversity of search results is described. In one embodiment, a computing device obtains initial search results based on a search query. From among non-indexed attributes of the initial search results, an attribute is selected by which to diversify the initial search results. A latent group of search results is determined from among the initial search results based on the attribute, and a relevance score of at least one search result in the latent group of search results is changed. Further, results are provided in response to the search query. In one embodiment, the results include at least a portion of the initial search results and at least a portion of the latent group of search results based on the changed relevance score of the search results in the latent group. | 12-25-2014 |
20150019546 | Method, Device, and System For Searching Key Words - A method and system for searching key words are provided. The method includes: acquire key words typed in the search box, and based on the key words, a search request is sent; associated words which are found based on the search request as well as a summary of the results relevant to the associated words are sent back; the associated words and the summary of the results relevant to the associated words are displayed respectively in the list corresponding to the search box stated previously. | 01-15-2015 |
20150026171 | REPOSITORY-BASED ENTERPRISE SEARCH WITH USER CUSTOMIZATIONS - In one embodiment, a search string is received from a user and the search type of the search is determined from the search string. Based on the search type, an order of repositories to search is determined and each repository is searched. The search results from each repository are displayed for the user in separate panels for each repository and the panels are ordered based on search type and the search results within each panel are ordered using that respective repository's relevancy. | 01-22-2015 |
20150039602 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ORDERED RESULTS FOR SEARCH QUERIES - Systems and methods are provided for providing an ordered list of search results in response to a query. Consistent with certain embodiments, computer-implemented systems and methods may identify content items corresponding to a query. First relevance scores may be determined for the identified content items based on their relevance to the query. Second relevance scores may be determined by modifying at least one of the first relevance scores using a boost value. The boost value may be set to a default boost value when the query does not include an override boost value. The boost value may be set to the override boost value, when the query includes an override boost value. An ordered list of the identified content items may be generated based on the second relevance scores. The ordered list may be displayed on a display device. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039603 | SOCIAL SNIPPET AUGMENTING - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for augmenting a social snippet with an augmentation tagline. For example, a search user may submit a search query through a search interface (e.g., “algebra help” search query). An entity associated with the search query may be identified (e.g., a math professor). A set of taglines associated with the entity may be retrieved (e.g., descriptive information about the math professor extracted from social networks, documents, websites, etc.). A social snippet for the entity may be augmented with an augmentation tagline selected from the set of taglines or generated based upon information relating to the entity. The augmented social snippet may be displayed through the search interface, and the augmentation tagline may indicate a relevance of the entity to the search user (e.g., an indication that the math professor teaches algebra at a university attended by the search user). | 02-05-2015 |
20150039604 | Method and Apparatus of Ordering Search Results - Ordering search results may include obtaining an exposed log file from a log system, computing a Bayesian posterior probability for relevancy between the log file and a search request, computing an expected value of the relevancy between the log file and the search request based on the Bayesian posterior probability, storing the search request and an identifier of the log file as a key and the expected value of the relevancy between the log file and the search request as a value into a search data structure, in response to receiving a search request submitted by a user, finding expected values of relevancy between the submitted search request and log files that are relevant to the submitted search request from the search data structure, and ordering the found log files in a descending order of the expected values. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039605 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND VISUALIZING ELEMENTS OF QUERY RESULTS - The systems and methods described herein generally relate to increasing user productivity in reviewing query results by visually depicting the presence/absence of a set of query terms in a set of paragraphs across a set of documents. | 02-05-2015 |
20150046440 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SCHEDULING SUGGESTIONS - A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and computer-implemented method for providing scheduling suggestions to a user. A collection of intention objects is accessed. Each of the intention objects is a data structure comprising a plurality of activity attributes of an intention of a user to undertake an activity. Calendar data from a calendar of the user is accessed and an available time slot on the calendar is determined. In response to determining the available time slot, a suggested intention object is selected from the collection of intention objects based on a plurality of activity attributes of the suggested intention object. A scheduling suggestion is then presented to the user. The scheduling suggestion may include a suggestion to schedule an activity associated with the suggested intention object in the available time slot. | 02-12-2015 |
20150074096 | INTERFACES FOR ACCESSING AND MANAGING ENHANCED CONNECTION DATA FOR SHARED RESOURCES - Embodiments are directed to providing access to supplemental query data that is relevant to a data query. In one scenario, a computer system receives an input indicating that a data query is to be processed, where the input provides various search criteria. The computer system then generates the data query according to the search criteria in the received input. The computer system further sends the data query to a second computer system which is configured to process the data query and receives the results of the data query. The results indicate that additional data elements relevant to the search criteria have been identified. The computer system then displays an indication of various steps that are to be taken in order to access the identified additional data elements. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074097 | USER INTERFACE FOR SEARCH METHOD AND SYSTEM - A user interface for searching records in a database is provided. Each record may contain information regarding one or more categories. The user interface may receive search criteria of one or more categories and provide search results comprising exact and/or inexact matching records. An inexact matching record may have a relevance value representing the relevance of the record to the search query, and inexact matching records may be displayed in an ordering based on the relevance values. The user interface may provide slider tools for receiving changes in a weight value or search criterion of an associated category. A new ordering of the inexact matching records may be displayed in real-time based on newly received weight values or search criterion. The user interface may also provide a mapping tool, a search-result selection function, and/or one or more drill down tools. The user interface may provide any tool or function alone or in any combination. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074098 | SUBSNIPPET HANDLING IN SEARCH RESULTS - Architecture that enables an optional display of a longer version of each subsnippet in response to user interactions such as clicking, hovering, or other suitable form of interaction. More specifically, options are provided to display additional text from a search result at the point where a subsnippet (a subsegment in a snippet that is delimited by ellipses) ends. Selecting suitable boundaries for both initial subsnippets and expanded subsnippets enables relevant information to be presented and increased readability. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074099 | ON-THE-FLY PATTERN RECOGNITION WITH CONFIGURABLE BOUNDS - Some embodiments of on-the-fly pattern recognition with configurable bounds have been presented. In one embodiment, a pattern matching engine is configured based on user input, which may include values of one or more user configurable bounds on searching. Then the configured pattern matching engine is used to search for a set of features in an incoming string. A set of scores is updated based on the presence of any of the features in the string while searching for the features. Each score may indicate a likelihood of the content of the string being in a category. The search is terminated if the end of the string is reached or if the user configurable bounds are met. After terminating the search, the scores are output. | 03-12-2015 |
20150081690 | NETWORK SOURCED ENRICHMENT AND CATEGORIZATION OF MEDIA CONTENT - Media content is enhanced and/or categorized through association with descriptive terms of a nomenclature that are obtained from network sources of information. In one example, a search query identifying a target media content item is received, and a search is performed based on the search query to obtain search result information for the target media content item. A schema defining a set of descriptive fields and an associated nomenclature of terms for each of the descriptive fields is referenced with regards to the search result information. The search result information is processed to identify a sampling metric for instances of the nomenclature of terms that are contained within text information of the search result for the descriptive fields. One or more suggested terms that have been selected from the nomenclature of terms for the descriptive fields are output for the target media content item based on the sampling metric. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081691 | ADAPTIVE USER INTERFACE FOR REAL-TIME SEARCH RELEVANCE FEEDBACK - A method and apparatus for dynamically adjusting the user interface of a search engine in order to effectively communicate the improved relevancy achieved through real-time implicit re-ranking of search results is described. Real-time implicit re-ranking occurs without delay after every user action as the search is being conducted, so finding methods of immediately altering the search page without disrupting the user experience is important. Graphical icons next to search results are employed to enable generating and removing re-ranked results, referred to as “recommended” search results. Clusters based on the real-time user model are also displayed to facilitate query reformulations. Sponsored links are selected using the real-time user model along with a combination of RPC and CTR information and are displayed in a manner similar to the organic results, or used to replace the initial sponsored links altogether. | 03-19-2015 |
20150088876 | FORENSIC SYSTEM, FORENSIC METHOD, AND FORENSIC PROGRAM - A forensic system includes a result information receiving unit that receives result information which is a determination result of connection between a lawsuit and a document group including a predetermined number of documents, which is extracted from document data included in digital information, by a user, an element selection unit that calculates evaluation values of elements which commonly appear in the document group in each result information item from the characteristics of the elements and selects the elements on the basis of the evaluation values, a score calculation unit that calculates a score of each document in the document data from the selected elements included in each document of the document data and the evaluation values of the selected elements, and a recall ratio calculation unit that calculates a recall ratio related to the determination of the connection to the lawsuit on the basis of the score. | 03-26-2015 |
20150095328 | Systems and Methods for Ranking Documents - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for ranking documents. An exemplary method includes receiving a plurality of queries from a user that are related to a search topic. The queries are compared to a plurality of documents stored in a database to identify candidate documents that match one or more of the queries. The number of matching queries is determined for the candidate documents. The candidate documents are ranked, using a computer processor, for relevance to the search topic based at least on the number of matching queries for each respective candidate document. | 04-02-2015 |
20150112980 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING IMAGE-BASED CONTENT BASED ON TEXT-BASED CONTENT - Systems and methods for creating image-based content based on text-based content. A data processing system receives a text-based content item based on which an image-based content item is to be created. The data processing system determines a context of the text-based content item based on the content of the text-based content item and the content of a landing page associated with the text-based content item. The data processing system determines one or more search terms from the determined context of the text-based content item. The data processing system then identifies from an image database, one or more candidate images that match at least one of the search terms determined from the context of the text-based content item. The data processing system then creates an image-based content item based on the text-based content item using at least one of the candidate images. | 04-23-2015 |
20150120718 | SMART QUESTION ROUTING AND ANSWERER GROWING FOR ONLINE COMMUNITY QUESTION-ANSWER SERVICES - A computer processor accesses QA forum activity associated with users of a QA forum, wherein the QA forum activity contains historical questions, historical answers, and profiles, each having elements including QA forum information. The processor accesses historical online social activity corresponding to the users of the QA forum, each historical online social activity having elements including at least social activity information. The processor performs a first similarity calculation and selects an at least one model answerer based on the similarity between elements of a question on the QA forum, and the elements of the QA forum activity associated and corresponding to each of the users of the QA forum. Based on a second similarity calculation, the processor determines a similarity between the QA forum user elements and the at least one model answerer elements, and identifies at least one prospect answerer from the QA forum users. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120719 | Method, System and Computer Program For Interactive Spatial Link-Based Image Searching, Sorting and/or Displaying - A web-based application provides more accurate and clearer methods of searching, sorting, and displaying a set of images stored in a database. A first aspect of the present invention is the method by which image data is stored. Typical, content-based systems use colour information, whereas the present invention uses an image-location tagging method. A second aspect of the present invention is the method by which the set of images are sorted in relevancy. Tag data of the images allows for a new and last method of searching through an entire set. A third aspect of the present invention is the method by which the sorted images are displayed to the user. Instead of the common method of just displaying the images in a rectangular array, where each image is the same size, the web-based application positions and sizes each image based on how relevant it is. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120720 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF IDENTIFYING RELEVANT CONTENT SNIPPETS THAT INCLUDE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION - In one exemplary aspect, a method includes the step of obtaining a content of a content block. The content is represented as a content vector. A query is received. The query is represented as a query vector. A hierarchical sliding similarity and dissimilarity is determined for matching the content vector and the query vector, this step can include the steps of: determining a similarity measure and a dissimilarity measure for each content vector element with respect to the query vector, identifying a strong match over a sliding window of sub-terms of each content vector element; computing a sub-similarity score and a sub-dissimilarity score for each level of the convent vector element; determining a final similarity score as a combination of the strong match of some sub-vectors at different levels; and determining a final dissimilarity score as a combination of the strong match of some sub-vectors at different levels. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120721 | Systems and Methods for Dynamically Determining Influencers in a Social Data Network Using Weighted Analysis - System and methods performed by a server for determining weighted influence in social networks, including: determining posts related to the topic; characterizing each post as one or more of: a reply post, a mention post, and a re-posting; generating a group of user accounts comprising any user account that authored a posting to which is replied, being mentioned in the mention post, that posted content being re-posted, and/or that authored one or more posts that are related to the topic; representing each of the user accounts as a node in the group in a connected graph and establishing an edge between one or more pair of nodes when there is a follower-followee relationship between the nodes; and for each edge between nodes, determining a weighting that is a function of one or more of: a number of mention posts, a number of reply posts, and a number of re-posts. | 04-30-2015 |
20150142790 | GENERATING LOGICAL EXPRESSIONS FOR SEARCH QUERIES - In one embodiment, a method comprises, by a computer system, receiving a search term, determining a search constraint for a search query, and generating a search query. The search query includes the search term and the search constraint. The search query requires that at least a first number of search results that are returned in response to the search query match both the search term and the search constraint. The search query permits at least a second number of the search results to match only the search term. The computer system provides the search query for a search against a store of data. | 05-21-2015 |
20150149454 | PREFERRED IMAGE RETRIEVAL - The present disclosure proposes computer-based systems and methods for determining, for an application, the most relevant subset of images across a number of sources of images by identifying images over multiple image providers, aggregating image collection over those images that are candidates for use, evaluating candidate images based on comparing image metadata against customizable image preference criteria, and producing a set of images to be selected either by a user or by a computer for use in the application. | 05-28-2015 |
20150293931 | GRAMMAR MODEL FOR STRUCTURED SEARCH QUERIES - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges, receiving an unstructured text query, identifying nodes and edges that correspond to n-grams of the text query, accessing a context-free grammar model, identifying grammars having query tokens that correspond to the identified nodes and edges, determining a score for each identified grammar, and then generating structured queries based on the identified grammars based on strings generated by the grammars. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293975 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SEARCHING FOR CONTACT OBJECT, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present disclosure relates to the searching technology field, and discloses a method and a device for searching a contact object, and a storage medium. The method comprises: normalizing a content of a contact field; receiving an input string for contact object searching, wherein the input string comprises any character or a combination of characters; normalizing the input string; searching in the normalized content of the contact field according to the normalized input string to obtain a matching field; and acquiring information of a contact object containing the matching field as a contact searching result. The device comprises a preprocessing module, a receiving module, an input processing module, a searching module and an acquiring module. | 10-15-2015 |
20150310014 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR KEYWORD SPOTTING USING ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT OF MULTIPLE PATTERN MATCHING ALGORITHMS - Methods and systems for keyword spotting, i.e., for identifying textual phrases of interest in input data. The input data may be communication packets exchanged in a communication network. A keyword spotting system holds a dictionary (or dictionaries) of textual phrases for searching input data. The input data and the patterns are assigned to multiple different pattern matching algorithms. For example, a share of the traffic is handled by one algorithm and smaller traffic shares may be handled by the others. The system monitors the algorithms performance as they process the data to search for a match. The ratio of traffic splitting among the algorithms is dynamically reassigned or adjusted to maximize the overall performance. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310114 | 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 (I) involves use of focus-spectrum expanded search queries and either of two general types of enhanced OR operator that may be offered by the underlying search system. Processing of the content domain informs automated generation of elaborated queries using these operators for submitting to such an underlying system so as to yield improved relevance ranking | 10-29-2015 |
20150317320 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING ESTIMATED RELEVANCE INDICATORS FOR RESULT SETS OF DOCUMENTS AND FOR DISPLAYING QUERY VISUALIZATIONS - Systems and methods for displaying estimated relevance indicators for result sets of documents and for displaying query visualizations are disclosed. A method includes receiving a search query including a plurality of query terms. The method further includes searching a database using the search query to identify the result set of documents and calculating an estimated relevance score for the result set of documents. The estimated relevance score is indicative of a degree to which the result set of documents are relevant to the search query. The method further includes providing for display the estimated relevance indicator based on the estimated relevance score. The estimated relevance indicator provides a visual indication of the degree to which the result set of documents are relevant to the search query. Query visualizations including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of connectors are also disclosed. | 11-05-2015 |
20150324360 | COMPLEX DECISION MAKING AND ANALYSIS - A computer system can analyze a set of prioritization scores corresponding to respective scored entities and developed from criteria comparison matrices that compare how well pairs of scored entities match respective criteria. The set of prioritization scores can be retrieved from a database. The computer system can determine a numerical difference between a first prioritization score of a scored entity and a threshold prioritization score. A plurality of state changes to the criteria comparison matrices can be used to determine corresponding changes to the first prioritization score. Based upon a comparison between the changes to the first prioritization score and the numerical difference, a subset of the plurality of state changes can be selected. An electronic recommendation message can be generated from a set of criteria for improving the prioritization score for the at least one scored entity. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324367 | USER INTERFACE METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTING AND PRESENTING CONTENT BASED ON USER RELATIONSHIPS - A user-interface method of selecting and presenting a collection of content items based on user navigation and selection actions associated with the content is provided. The method includes associating a relevance weight on a per user basis with content items to indicate a relative measure of likelihood that the user desires the content item. The method includes receiving a user's navigation and selections actions for identifying desired content items, and in response, adjusting the associated relevance weight of the selected content item and group of content items containing the selected item. The method includes, in response to subsequent user input, selecting and presenting a subset of content items and content groups to the user ordered by the adjusted associated relevance weights assigned to the content items and content groups. | 11-12-2015 |
20150331862 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING GROUP EXPERTISE - A method, apparatus and computer program product for estimating group expertise, the method comprising: executing a query against a knowledge base to retrieve at least one document; retrieving at least one entity associated with the at least one document; assigning at least one relevancy score to the at least one entity; obtaining a filtered list by filtering the at least one entity to contain only entities appearing in a predetermined collection; and assessing findability of the query based on the at least one entity and the relevancy score. | 11-19-2015 |
20150339299 | TYPE EVALUATION IN A QUESTION-ANSWERING SYSTEM - A system and method for automatically mapping LATs and candidate answers to multiple taxonomies without a need to merge these taxonomies. The method includes using a syntactic analysis of a corpus to extract all type instances of the LAT. The extracted instances are then mapped to a given taxonomy and clustered in a set of supertypes. Each supertype receives a score based on the coverage of LAT instances in the corpus. The method includes mapping the candidate answer to the same taxonomy to determine if the candidate answer is an instance of a significant supertype. Then the score of a candidate answer is obtained by aggregating or taking a maximum of the score of the matched significant supertypes. This score evaluates the type match between the LAT and candidate answer for a taxonomy. Multiple taxonomies can be used to increase the chance of LAT and candidate answer mapping. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339356 | FACT CHECKING SEARCH RESULTS - A fact checking system is able to verify the correctness of information and/or characterize information by comparing the information with one or more sources. The fact checking system automatically monitors, processes, fact checks information and indicates a status of the information. Fact checking results are able to be validated by re-fact checking the fact check results. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339380 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO RETRIEVAL - The invention provides a method and apparatus for video retrieval. The method comprises: providing a user interface for a user to input a text query relevant to a video to be retrieved; carrying out a text-based image searching based on the text query to provide a plurality of images relevant to the video; and carrying out an example-based video retrieval based on one image selected by the user from the plurality of images. | 11-26-2015 |
20150347411 | SELECTING CONTENT AND IDENTIFYING USERS FOR IDENTIFICATION TO ADDITIONAL USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM BASED ON USER ATTRIBUTES OR CONTENT ITEM CHARACTERISTICS - A social networking system provides a user with a feed of content items associated with other users connected to the user via the social networking system. Additionally, the social networking system identifies additional content items for presentation to the user and generates an additional feed including the additional content items. The additional content items may be determined by identifying content items having various characteristics and scoring the content items based on the characteristics. Content items having at least a threshold score are identified as additional content items. Examples of characteristics of content items include users providing content items to the social networking system, locations associated with social networking system users, and interaction with content items by social networking system users. In some embodiments, the additional feed modifies presentation of the additional content items based on their associated scores. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347419 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING DATA - Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, metadata from files created by several different software applications are captured, and the captured metadata is searched. The type of information in metadata for one type of file differs from the type of information in metadata for another type of file. Other methods are described and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347420 | Performing Application Searches - According to some implementations, a technique for processing an application search query is disclosed. The techniques include receiving a search query from a partner, determining a set of subqueries based on the search query, and extracting query features of the search query from the search query. The techniques further include determining an initial result set of applications based on the set of subqueries and the query features. The initial result set includes a plurality of application representations each defining features of a different application. The techniques also include determining a score for each application in the initial result set of applications based on the set of query features and one or more scoring models, determining a result set based on the scores of the applications in the initial result set, and providing the result set to the partner. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347464 | CONTROL METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A display control unit vertically divides a case display area in accordance with the number of disease names selected by a user to create a number of sub-areas equal to the number of disease names. Each of the sub-areas is vertically elongated so that thumbnail images of similar cases of the corresponding disease name are displayed so as to be aligned in a column. The display control unit displays, in each sub-area, thumbnail images of similar cases of the corresponding disease name so that the thumbnail images are aligned in a column in order of decreasing similarity to a search query image displayed in a layout area. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347527 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING AND DISPLAYING STRUCTURED DATA - Methods and systems are provided for processing data. In one embodiment, a method comprises: receiving query data that requests a result; performing a query on structured data to determine a plurality or results; determining a relevancy for the plurality of results; and generating graphical user interface data for graphically displaying the plurality of results in a user interface based on the relevancy. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347569 | MANAGING DOCUMENTS IN QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS - A first candidate answer to a time-sensitive question received by a question answering (QA) system is identified using a first document. A first temporal confidence subscore of the first candidate answer is then calculated using a first temporal confidence rule. A first general confidence score is then generated based on at least the first temporal confidence subscore. A second candidate answer to the question is identified using a second document. A second temporal confidence subscore of the second candidate answer is then calculated using a second temporal confidence rule. A second general confidence score is then generated based on at least the second temporal confidence subscore. The first general confidence score and the second general confidence score are then compared. Based on this comparison, a final answer is selected from the first candidate answer and the second candidate answer. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347901 | Generating Written Content from Knowledge Management Systems - The disclosure is directed to written content generation. A method for generating written content in an application in accordance with an embodiment includes: receiving a query from a user; importing data from at least one data source in response to the query; ranking the imported data based on a plurality of ranking factors to determine a relevance of the imported data; automatically generating written content using at least a portion of the imported data based on the determined relevance of the imported data; and automatically customizing the written content based on a file format of the application. | 12-03-2015 |
20150356087 | SELECTING AND ORDERING GROUPS OF TITLES - Techniques for selecting and ordering groups of titles to present as recommendations. In one embodiment, for example, a method performed by one or more computing devices of an online services comprises selecting, for each of a plurality of row positions, a group of titles to fill the row position based at least in part on a relevance score computed for the group of titles. The relevance score is based at least in part on a personalized ranking for a particular user of titles in the groups in titles selected to fill the row positions. The groups of titles selected to fill to the row positions are presented as recommendations to the particular user as a sequence of rows in which each row in the sequence corresponds to one of the selected groups of titles. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356091 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING MICROBLOG USER IDENTITY - Provided are a method and system for identifying microblog user identity. The method comprises obtaining behavioral data of a user to be identified and feature library information of user behavior, reprocessing the obtained behavioral data of the user to be identified, performing semantic unit reconstruction on the preprocessed user behavioral data, and obtaining attribute information and its corresponding weight of the semantic unit; obtaining behavioral feature of the user to be identified based on attribute information and corresponding weight. The method further comprises comparing behavioral feature of user to be identified with each feature category in the feature library information of user behavior and determining the identity of the user to be identified of user behavior exceeds a predefined threshold. Using the provided method and system for identifying the microblog user identity, the accuracy and real-time performance of identifying the microblog user identity may be effectively improved. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356172 | PROVIDING ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS USING MULTIPLE MODELS TO SCORE CANDIDATE ANSWERS - A method, system and computer program product for generating answers to questions. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input query; conducting a search to identify candidate answers to the input query, and producing a plurality of scores for each of the candidate answers. For each of the candidate answers, one, of a plurality of candidate ranking functions, is selected. This selected ranking function is applied to the each of the candidate answers to determine a ranking for the candidate answer based on the scores for that candidate answer. One or more of the candidate answers is selected, based on the rankings for the candidate answers, as one or more answers to the input query. In an embodiment, the ranking function selection is performed using information about the question. In an embodiment, the ranking function selection is performed using information about each answer. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356181 | Effectively Ingesting Data Used for Answering Questions in a Question and Answer (QA) System - A mechanism is provided, in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory configured to implement a question and answer (QA) system, for effectively ingesting data for answering questions in the QA system. A received input question having a set of question characteristics is parsed, which are compared to question characteristics associated with a set of previous questions. Responsive to the set of question characteristics matching the question characteristics associated with one or more previous questions above a related-question predetermined threshold, identification is made as to whether answers to the one or more previous questions were obtained from static information sources or real-time information sources. Responsive to the answers to the one or more previous questions being obtained from the real-time information sources above the predetermined real-time threshold, real-time information sources related to the characteristics of the input question are initially utilized to answer the input question. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356199 | CLICK-THROUGH-BASED CROSS-VIEW LEARNING FOR INTERNET SEARCHES - The description relates to click-through-based cross-view learning for internet searches. One implementation includes determining distances among textual queries and/or visual images in a click-through-based structured latent subspace. Given new content, results can be sorted based on the distances in the click-through-based structured latent subspace. | 12-10-2015 |
20150370801 | AGGREGATION OF RATING INDICATORS - A computer-implemented method and system for publishing an aggregate rating indicator based on a plurality of discrete rating indicators associated with a rated entity. The method includes searching a plurality of repositories containing the plurality of discrete rating indicators associated with the rated entity. The method may include retrieving a first rating indicator, a second rating indicator, and a third rating indicator. At least one of the first rating indicator, the second rating indicator, and the third rating indicator may be a fraudulent rating indicator. The method may include filtering out the fraudulent rating indicator from among the first, second, and third rating indicators, wherein the fraudulent rating indicator is determined based on a combination of parameters. The method may include aggregating the first, second, and third rating indicators after filtering out the fraudulent rating indicator such that the aggregation results in an aggregate rating indicator. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370890 | PROVIDING A VISUAL AND CONVERSATIONAL EXPERIENCE IN SUPPORT OF RECOMMENDATIONS - The mapping system and method comprises receiving a query identifying a source entity, the source entity being of a first entity-type; generating a plurality of candidate entities from an analysis of an entity-relationship graph in response to the query based on the source entity; and computing feature values for each candidate entity of the plurality of candidate entities by passing the source entity and the plurality of candidate entities to a type-specific entity recommender particular to the first entity-type. | 12-24-2015 |
20160004700 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PUSHING INFORMATION - The present invention provides a method and device for pushing information. The method comprises: obtaining a designated query input on a web page; matching the designated query with queries in a query candidate set including queries having a tendency of carrying an image; and when a query in the query candidate set matches the designated query, outputting a corresponding image on the web page according to the designated query. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004703 | METHODS FOR MODIFYING AND RANKING SEARCHES WITH ACTIONS BASED ON PRIOR SEARCH RESULTS AND ACTIONS - Methods for modifying and ranking searches with actions based on prior search results and actions are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a method comprises using at least one processor and memory determining an action associated with web content. Further, the method comprises receiving user input identifying search criteria. Further, the method, in response to determining that the search criteria is associated with the web content, comprises presenting search results associated with the search criteria and a user interface for initiating the action with respect to one or more of the search results. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004704 | DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL USING INTERNAL DICTIONARY-HIERARCHIES TO ADJUST PER-SUBJECT MATCH RESULTS - Techniques for managing big data include retrieval using per-subject dictionaries having multiple levels of sub-classification hierarchy within the subject. Entries may include subject-determining-power (SDP) scores that provide an indication of the descriptive power of the entry term with respect to the subject of the dictionary containing the term. The same term may have entries in multiple dictionaries with different SDP scores in each of the dictionaries. A retrieval request for one or more documents containing search terms descriptive of the one or more documents can be processed by identifying a set of candidate documents tagged with subjects, i.e., identifiers of per-subject dictionaries having entries corresponding to a search term, then using affinity values to adjust the aggregate score for the terms in the dictionaries. Documents are then selected for best match to the subject based on the adjusted scores. Alternatively, the adjustment may be performed after selecting the documents by re-ordering them according to adjusted scores. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004777 | Promoting Preferred Content in a Search Query - A method for promoting preferred content in a search query is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a search result set of content items from a corpus of content items, the search result set responsive to a search query and comprising a rank of the content items, identifying content items in the search result set, the identified content items comprising at least a preferred content item uploaded by a user, adjusting, by a processing device, a position of the preferred content item with respect to a position of a claimed content item in the rank of the content items within the search result set, the claimed content item claimed by the user. | 01-07-2016 |
20160012045 | USER INTERFACE FOR SUMMARIZING THE RELEVANCE OF A DOCUMENT TO A QUERY | 01-14-2016 |
20160012052 | RANKING TABLES FOR KEYWORD SEARCH | 01-14-2016 |
20160012056 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING AN INDEX | 01-14-2016 |
20160012058 | AUTOMATIC NEW CONCEPT DEFINITION | 01-14-2016 |
20160012106 | USER INTERFACE FOR SUMMARIZING THE RELEVANCE OF A DOCUMENT TO A QUERY | 01-14-2016 |
20160019213 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING SEARCH RESULTS QUALITY IN VERTICAL RANKING - Methods, systems and programming for predicting search results quality. In one example, a search query is received from a user. A plurality of search results are obtained from a content source based on the search query. The plurality of search results are ranked based on their relevance scores with respect to the search query. A distribution of the relevance scores of the plurality of search results is normalized in each position of the ranking. A metric of the content source is computed based on the normalized distribution of the relevance scores. The metric indicates a relevance between the plurality of search results and the search query. | 01-21-2016 |
20160034456 | MANAGING CREDIBILITY FOR A QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM - A method and system for managing credibility of a set of search results for a search query is disclosed. The method can include determining, by a natural language processing technique configured to analyze a portion of the set of search results and a portion of the search query, a credibility factor configured to indicate similarity to a subject matter of the search query. The method can also include establishing a relevance relationship between the credibility factor and source information of a first search result of the set of search results, wherein the source information is based on the credibility factor. The method may also include computing a credibility score for the first search result of the set of search results based on the relevance relationship between the credibility factor and the source information of the set of search results. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034461 | CONNECTION INSIGHTS WIDGET - Techniques for enhancing search results generated by a search engine are described. A first set of member profiles is identified, the first set of member profiles satisfying a search query initiated by a searcher. A second set of member profiles is identified, the second set of member profiles having a relationship between a profile of the searcher and each of the second set of member profiles. A subset of the second set of member profiles is selected based on strength of relationships between each of the subset of the second set of member profiles and the first set of member profiles. A portion of each of the first set of member profiles is communicated for presentation in a first region of a search results user interface and a portion of each of the subset of the second set of member profiles is communicated for presentation in a second region of the search results user interface. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034470 | PRIORITIZING DATA CLUSTERS WITH CUSTOMIZABLE SCORING STRATEGIES - Techniques are disclosed for for prioritizing a plurality of clusters. Prioritizing clusters may generally include identifying a scoring strategy for prioritizing the plurality of clusters. Each cluster is generated from a seed and stores a collection of data retrieved using the seed. For each cluster, elements of the collection of data stored by the cluster are evaluated according to the scoring strategy and a score is assigned to the cluster based on the evaluation. The clusters may be ranked according to the respective scores assigned to the plurality of clusters. The collection of data stored by each cluster may include financial data evaluated by the scoring strategy for a risk of fraud. The score assigned to each cluster may correspond to an amount at risk. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034471 | ENTITY DETECTION AND EXTRACTION FOR ENTITY CARDS - A system and method are provided for detecting entity information contained within search results. The detected entity information can be used to determine a category of entity as well as a specific entity within the search results. Entity information can be extracted from the documents associated with the search results. This information can be used as part of the information for an entity card, which can be displayed to a user in conjunction with and/or in place of the search results. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034567 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND VISUALIZING ELEMENTS OF QUERY RESULTS - The systems and methods described herein generally relate to increasing user productivity in reviewing query results by visually depicting the presence/absence of a set of query terms in a set of paragraphs across a set of documents. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034585 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED COMPARISON POLLS - A content item presented to a user may involve two or more topics, such as news articles mentioning athletes or actors. Users may enjoy expressing opinions about a comparison of the topics, such as personal preferences or an evaluation of talent. Presented herein are techniques for automatically generating, for the content item, a poll among the topics of the content item. The respective comparisons of a comparison set are evaluated for the topics of the content item, and a comparison relevance score is computed identifying the relevance of the comparison of the topics. The comparison having the highest relevance for the topics is selected, and a comparison question is formulated and presented to the user with the content item. Results may be tabulated and presented for the topics of the content item. These techniques facilitate user expression about the content item without depending upon user-authored polls for each content item. | 02-04-2016 |
20160041982 | Conditioned Search Ranking Models on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes a computing system receiving a query from a first user, which can be parsed to identify i conditions associated with the query. The system may then identify one or more search results substantially matching the i conditions. Each search result may be associated with a feature vector of j features. The system may then access a conditioned ranking model that comprises j scoring functions for each i condition. The j scoring functions may correspond to j features of the feature vectors. A score for each search result may be calculated based on the i conditions and the j features. The system may then receive a selection of one of the search results from the first user, and in response modify one or more of the j scoring functions of the conditioned ranking model based on the selection. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042001 | SEARCH SUGGESTIONS OF RELATED ENTITIES BASED ON CO-OCCURRENCE AND/OR FUZZY-SCORE MATCHING - A method for generating search suggestions of related entities based on co-occurrence and/or fuzzy score matching is disclosed. The method may be employed in a search system that may include a client/server type architecture. The search system may include a user interface for a search engine in communication with one or more server devices over a network connection. The server device may include an entity extraction module, a fuzzy-score matching module, and an entity co-occurrence knowledge base database. In one embodiment, the search system may process a partial search query from a user and present search suggestions to complete the partial query. In another embodiment, the complete search query may be used as a new search query. The search system may process the new search query, run an entity extraction, find related entities from the entity co-occurrence knowledge base, and present said related entities in a drop down list. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042071 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCH OF SOURCES AND TARGETS BASED ON RELATIVE EXPERTISE OF THE SOURCES - A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to provide a ranking of citied objects and citing subjects identified as results of a search, where the relative expertise of subjects or sources of citations to said targets or objects is considered. The relative expertise is a function of the share of the subject's citations matching the query term or search criteria relative to the share of all subjects' citations matching the query term, weighted by the influence of the subjects. This allows the identification of “experts” on “topics” without any pre-defined categorization of topics or pre-computation of expertise. Under this novel approach, expertise can be determined on any query term in real-time. | 02-11-2016 |
20160048575 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TOPICS EXTRACTION AND FILTERING - The present invention discloses a method of searching, identifying and classifying relevant content topics associated with a content object. The method comprising the steps of: receiving an input of a given content object, extracting candidate topics including diverse set of themes from content items of at least one data network source related to the given content object, wherein the candidate topics are identified by leading keywords according to predefined rules, creating topics' candidate lists that are organized according to target profiles and/or categories, calculating relevancy ranking based on analyzing statistics of keywords distribution in content items, calculating Interest/Popularity ranking based on calculating usages' statistics of content items related to the topics in the data network source, and/or of topics keywords in different mediums of the relevant data networks and calculating qualification Ranking by integrating normalized relevancy ranking with normalized Interest/Popularity ranking. The receiving, extracting, extracting, and calculating are performed by at least one processor device. | 02-18-2016 |
20160055160 | Generating Cards in Response to User Actions on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph by a social-networking system. The social graph includes a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes. The social-networking system may receive a trigger action from a first user. In response to the trigger action, the social-networking system may generate reaction-cards based at least in part on the trigger action where each reaction-card is associated with a structured query referencing nodes and edges of the social graph. The social-networking system may calculate a reaction-card score for each reaction-card, where the reaction-card score is based on a relevance of the structured query associated with the reaction-card to the trigger action and user-engagement factors. The social-networking system may then send each reaction-card having a reaction-card score greater than a threshold reaction-card score to the first user for display on a page currently accessed by the first user. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055161 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING REPUTATION OR INFLUENCE SCORES IN SEARCH QUERIES - One or more processors determine reputation scores for one or more subjects based on connections. One or more processors use a plurality of citations, with each citation representing an expression of opinion or description by a subject on an object. One or more processors select a subset of citations for each object from the citations citing each object. The content of the citations matches one or more search terms for a search query. One or more processors assign citation scores to a subset of a plurality of objects. The citation scores indicate relevance of the objects cited by citations and are determined based at least in part on matching one or more search terms with the content of the citations of the objects by the one or more subjects. The selection scores for an object are determined for each search query based on a subset of subjects citing the object. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055162 | Systems and Methods for Information Search, Retrieval, Summarization and Interpretation using Related-Concept Analysis - Systems and methods for searching text and textual content, and retrieving and summarizing and interpreting search results, are provided. The inventive systems and methods obtain content or are configured to be applied to content. The systems and methods review all of the content, creating one or more data collections of Related-Concept and Themes, and statistical relations between Related-Concepts and Themes. When a user enters a search query, the systems and methods present the user with Related-Concepts and Themes that match the search query, and the user can iteratively select Related-Concepts and Themes, and in response the present invention will narrow or broaden the search and display an altered documents results set and different Related-Concepts and Themes. The systems and methods then provide the user with interpretation about the content in the form of summaries or conclusions based on the Related Concepts and Themes. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055179 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING AN IMAGE TO PROVIDE SEARCH RESULTS - A system and method uses one or more images provided to an image recognition capable search engine to obtain search results. The image recognition system may use one or more image match algorithms to create one or more possible product match sets. In the event multiple product match sets are created, the search results may be limited to product that appears in one or more of the plural possible product match sets. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055181 | CALCULATING WEIGHT FOR MEDIA BASED ON SOCIAL RELEVANCE - Examples disclose a method, executable by a computing device to calculate a weight for a media based on a social relevance of the media. The social relevance includes a number of interactions with the media. Also, the examples disclose the method provides the media displayable in a manner according to the calculated weight. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055234 | Retrieving Text from a Corpus of Documents in an Information Handling System - A mechanism is provided for retrieving candidate answers from a corpus of documents. The mechanism receives an input question for which an answer is sought. The mechanism extracts features of the input question based on a natural language processing. The mechanism executes a first search of the corpus of documents based on a first subset of the extracted features of the input question and an initial evaluation of a utility of the first subset of extracted features to generate a subset of documents. The mechanism executes a second search of a set of passages extracted from the subset of documents based on a second subset of the extracted features of the input question and a reevaluation of the utility of the second subset of extracted features thereby forming a subset of passages. The mechanism generates query results from the subset of passages matching from which candidate answers are identified. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055242 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING CONTENT FROM DIGITAL CONTENT SOURCES - Methods and systems are provided for analyzing content items from digital content sources with respect to activity on communication networks. Content items are retrieved based on tracking set definitions from digital content sources via a network, and metadata is extracted from the retrieved content items. Communication related to the content items on one or more communication networks is periodically monitored, and the monitored communication is used to generate content scores for the retrieved content items based on one or more static content scores, dynamic content scores, and contextual relevance scores. The periodic monitoring allows trending information with respect to content items, authors, topics, and/or other data elements to be surfaced and analyzed. | 02-25-2016 |
20160063068 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTING A SEARCHABLE DATABASE - A method of constructing a searchable database that catalogues goods or services enables an associated website to be created quickly and efficiently. The method includes: presenting to a database builder a plurality of predefined database features; receiving an identification of selected database features from the plurality of predefined database features; receiving a plurality of parameters defining the goods or services; generating a search algorithm for searching the goods or services according to the parameters; generating a graphical user interface that displays the selected database features and the plurality of parameters defining the goods or services; receiving from a user an identification of catalogued goods or services that are identified using the plurality of parameters; receiving from a user a search query that identifies desired parameters selected from the plurality of parameters defining the goods or services; and transmitting search results to a user. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063096 | IMAGE RELEVANCE TO SEARCH QUERIES BASED ON UNSTRUCTURED DATA ANALYTICS - A computer processor identifies a search result of a plurality of search results that includes one or more images and unstructured data corresponding to metadata of the one or more images and the text content in proximity of the one or more images. The computer processor performs a semantic analysis of the unstructured data of the search result, and determines a relevance of the one or more images to the unstructured data of the search result, based, at least in part, on the semantic analysis of the unstructured data and the one or more images of the search result. The computer processor determines a count of the one or more images determined to be relevant to the search result, and ranks the search result of the plurality of search results, based on the count of the one or more images determined to be relevant to the search result. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063120 | FACETING SEARCH RESULTS - A business networking system receives a user a first search query that includes search criteria. The system executes the first search query to retrieve information relating to members of the business networking system based on the search criteria and to retrieve additional information relating to one or more facet values of the business networking system based on the search criteria and a scoring of a relevance of the facet values to the user. The system then executes a second search query using the one or more retrieved facet values to determine a count of documents that satisfy the search criteria and that include the one or more facet values. The system selects a portion of the facet values for transmission to the user, and displays on a user device the information relating to the members, the one or more facet values, and the counts for the one or more facet values. | 03-03-2016 |
20160065534 | SYSTEM FOR CORRELATION OF DOMAIN NAMES - Provided are methods and systems for correlation of domain names. An example method includes receiving Domain Name System (DNS) data associated with a plurality of domain names, generating multidimensional vectors based on the DNS data such that each of the domain names is associated with one of the multidimensional vectors, calculating similarity scores for each pair of the plurality of domain names based on comparison of corresponding multidimensional vectors, and clustering one or more sets of domain names selected from the plurality of domain names based on the similarity scores and such that a difference between the similarity scores corresponding to each pair of the domain names in each of clusters is below a predetermined threshold. | 03-03-2016 |
20160065535 | DNS-BASED RANKING OF DOMAIN NAMES - Provided is a method for domain name ranking. An example method includes receiving Domain Name System (DNS) data, which includes domain names. The DNS data is processed to obtain multiple metric values for each of the domain names. The metric values can include a query count (QC), a client count (CC), and a network count (NC). The method proceeds with calculating a score for each of the domain names based on the metric values. The calculation can be performed using the following equation: Score=NC·CC·(1+log(QC)). Furthermore, the method ranks the domain names based on the score for each of the domain names. The ranking can be based on normalization of the scores or based on converting the scores into respective percentile ranks. | 03-03-2016 |
20160070705 | INTERACTIVE FEEDBACK FOR CHANGES IN SEARCH RELEVANCY PARAMETERS - Techniques are disclosed relating to providing interactive feedback based on changes in search parameters. A computing system may receive user input specifying adjustment of a relevancy parameter from a first value to a modified value. The relevancy parameter may be usable to determine ordering of results for search queries. In response to the input, the system may cause information to be displayed that indicates a value of a search metric, and the value may be based on one or more prior search queries using the adjusted relevancy parameter. The system may additionally or alternatively cause first and second sets of ordered search results to be displayed, where the first set is based on the first value of the relevancy parameter and the second set is based on the modified value of the relevancy parameter. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070709 | ONLINE REVIEW ASSESSMENT USING MULTIPLE SOURCES - Multiple sources of reviews for the same product or service (e.g. hotels, restaurants, clinics, hair saloon, etc.) are utilized to provide a trustworthiness score. Such a score can clearly identify hotels with evidence of review manipulation, omission and fakery and provide the user with a comprehensive understanding of the reviews of a product or establishment. Three types of information are used in computing the score: spatial, temporal and network or graph-based. The information is blended to produce a representative set of features that can reliably produce the trustworthiness score. The invention is self-adapting to new reviews and sites. The invention also includes a validation mechanism by crowd-sourcing and fake review generation to ensure reliability and trustworthiness of the scoring. | 03-10-2016 |
20160078035 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME CONTENT ITEMS ASSOCIATED WITH TOPICS - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can acquire a topic for which associated content is to be provided. A set of content items that are associated with the topic can be identified. The set of content items can be ranked based, at least in part, on time data associated with the set of content items. A subset of content items can be selected out of the set of content items. In some instances, the subset of content items can be selected to include an amount of highest ranked content items. The subset of content items can be provided in real-time. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078036 | Building a Domain Knowledge and Term Identity Using Crowd Sourcing - An approach is provided in which a QA system ingests traditional sources, which includes traditional terms, into a domain dictionary. Next, the QA system ingests crowd-based sources that include crowd-based terms and corresponding crowd-based metadata. In turn, the QA system calculates weightings pertaining to the traditional terms based upon the crowd-based metadata. When the QA system receives a question from a requestor that includes question terms, the QA system identifies an answer to the question based on the calculated weightings pertaining to the traditional terms that are relevant to the question terms. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078037 | METHODS, DEVICES AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR FACILITATING SEARCHING AND DISPLAY OF LOCATIONS RELEVANT TO A DIGITAL MAP - A portable electronic device is disclosed comprising data processing means and a data repository containing: data records representative of locations relevant to or within a digital map; and data representative of an index associating words contained in the data records with the records in which those words appear. The device further comprises means for, in relation to a received search query including a search string, processing the search string to provide one or more search words; querying the index to identify data records containing the or each search word; and generating a rank for each of the one or more identified data records indicative of the relevance of each identified data record to the search query. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078039 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN EXPERT QUESTION ANSWER SYSTEM FROM A DYNAMIC CORPUS - Various embodiments provide systems, computer program products and computer implemented methods. Some embodiments include a method of updating an expert corpus set, including obtaining a query from a user, obtaining a raw data source, determining a relevance score for the raw data source with respect to the query, by performing actions including creating a first vector of statistical variables for the query using at least one natural language processing (NLP) socket, the statistical variables having category types, creating a second vector for the first raw data source, having category types that are the same as those for the query and generating a hypothesis regarding the relevance of the raw data source, testing the hypothesis by comparing relative statistical variables, calculating a gradient between the vectors to determine the relevance score and updating the expert corpus set with the raw data in response to the relevance score exceeds a threshold. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078047 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING SEARCH SUGGESTIONS FROM FUZZY SCORE MATCHING AND POPULATION FREQUENCIES - A method for obtaining and providing search suggestions using entity co-occurrence is disclosed. The method may be employed in any search system that may include at least one search engine, one or more databases including entity co-occurrence knowledge and trends co-occurrence knowledge. The method may extract and disambiguate entities from search queries by using an entity and trends co-occurrence knowledge in one or more database. Subsequently, a list of search suggestion may be provided by each database, then by comparing the score of each search suggestion, a new list of suggestion may be built based on the individual and/or overall score of each search suggestion. Based on the user's selection of the suggestions, the trends co-occurrence knowledgebase can be updated, providing a means of on-the-fly learning, which improves the search relevancy and accuracy. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078111 | Method And Apparatus For Quickly Evaluating Entities - Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems for evaluating entities for a target user, the method comprising obtaining, at a server computer, entity data from a plurality of data sources. The entity data is then stored in an entity database. The method further comprises merging the entity data from the plurality of data sources, mapping the entity data to a corresponding entity, and differentiating the entity. Then a relevance is determined associated with the entity data and data source. The method further comprises generating a set of entity evaluations to the target user using the relevance, determining a set of one or more entities relevant to the primary user based on the entity data, user data, and the relevance, with an initial order of relevance, and displaying, on a user device, the set of relevant entities to the target user in the order of relevance. | 03-17-2016 |
20160085865 | USING IMAGES AND IMAGE METADATA TO LOCATE RESOURCES - A method of using images and image metadata to locate one or more resources includes receiving a requests, each request requesting a location of a resource and including an image related to the resource, information specifying how the image and the resource are related, and metadata for the image. A queue is created for each of a plurality of responding systems, the queue ranked, and specifying the order in which the requests are to be displayed at respective responding systems. The generated queues and sent to their respective responding systems, and a response is received that specifies the location of a resource. | 03-24-2016 |
20160092560 | Audio Content Search of Registered Audio Content Sources in a Media Playback System - Embodiments are described herein that provide searches, including a multi-dimensional search, a cross-source search, or both in a media playback system. The search can be initiated by way of a selection of a location on user interface of a controller. The location corresponds to one or more metadata that is used in the search. Results are sorted and displayed. In some embodiments, metadata is used to filter and/or sort the results. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092571 | SEARCH RELEVANCE - Systems, methods and a machine-readable media are described herein for a relevance booster module to calculate a relevance, with respect to at least one characteristic of a query, of each piece of content in a set of collected content and a set of premium content. The relevance booster module increases a calculated relevance of at least one piece of content in the set of premium content. The relevance booster module generates a list in which each piece of content in the set of collected content and the set of premium content is ranked according to a respective calculated relevance. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092578 | CONFERENCING AUTO AGENDA PLANNER - To generate agendas for meetings, an agenda planning system is provided. The agenda planning system can generate suggested agenda items for scheduled meetings based on various available data, such as emails sent on the topic, previous meetings materials, subject and participants in the meeting appointment. The agenda planning system can determine the topic of the meeting based on the meeting request or calendar invitation. With the topic or subject of the meeting, the agenda planning system can then mine various resources in order to determine possible agenda items. The agenda planning system can propose potential agenda items based on agenda items in previous meetings, and perform searches through emails sent between the meeting invitees and/or participants. The email search terms can be based on the meeting topic or subject determined by the agenda planning system. | 03-31-2016 |
20160098404 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING EXPLORATION OF DATA ITEMS - The subject matter discloses a method for exploring the most relevant data items, or pieces of information from data sources of various forms and sizes, using the accumulated formalized and clustered behavior of previous users combined with an effective analysis and learning system. According to some embodiments, users are presented with data items that may interest them and are encouraged to rank these data items in order to improve the system's suggestions. The system may also pose the user a selection of questions, meant to further discern the user's preferences. | 04-07-2016 |
20160098479 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND REPORTING - The present invention is directed to a computerized system and process for natural language query and reporting comprising a processor, memory, and a query interface configured for receipt of a data source selection. The processor searches and retrieves over a network unstructured data based on the received data source selection, parses the unstructured data into data blocks and stores the data blocks in a local database. The processor semantically parses the data blocks and stores the resulting data in a structured database. | 04-07-2016 |
20160110364 | Realtime Ingestion via Multi-Corpus Knowledge Base with Weighting - An approach is provided for updating corpora in a Question and Answer (QA) system. Ingestion of a first set of sources into a first corpus and a second set of sources into a second corpus with the second set of sources including updates to the first set of sources. A question is received. The system identifies candidate answers to the question using the sources included in the corpuses. Each candidate answer has a weighting. The system determines whether the first and second corpuses have an overlapping source from which two candidate answers were identified. If an overlapping source is found, the candidate answer from the overlapping source in the first corpus is assigned a lower weighting than the candidate answer from the second corpus. Likely answers are selected from the candidate answers based on the weighting and returned to the requestor. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110446 | METHOD FOR DISAMBIGUATED FEATURES IN UNSTRUCTURED TEXT - A method for disambiguating features in unstructured text is provided. The disclosed method may not require pre-existing links to be present. The method for disambiguating features in unstructured text may use co-occurring features derived from both the source document and a large document corpus. The disclosed method may include multiple modules, including a linking module for linking the derived features from the source document to the co-occurring features of an existing knowledge base. The disclosed method for disambiguating features may allow identifying unique entities from a knowledge base that includes entities with a unique set of co-occurring features, which in turn may allow for increased precision in knowledge discovery and search results, employing advanced analytical methods over a massive corpus, employing a combination of entities, co-occurring entities, topic IDs, and other derived features. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110452 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PAIRING MUSIC AND FOOD SELECTIONS - A system and method enable the selection of musical recordings for pairing with a food serving, possibly an entrée, a dessert or a beverage, for the purpose of increasing the enjoyment of a given meal. A plurality of factors for specific meal components such as entree, including protein type, method of cooking, amount of spice, and type of sauce are used to determine a specific numerical value for a meal; dessert, including content of cacao, sweetener and content of sweetener, ambient temperature at service and dairy content; and beverage, including but not limited to alcohol content, acidity, body, dryness, lingering quality, and IBU. A specific numerical value for a musical recording is also determined based on a plurality of factors, including genre, tempo, dynamics, and primary instrument. The numerical value assigned to the meal and the numerical value assigned to the musical recording are preferably as nearly identical as possible. The musical recording enhances the perception of the flavor, texture, and overall experience of the food. The process may be facilitate by use of a dedicated mobile application, or may be performed manually by a user. | 04-21-2016 |
20160117321 | COMMUNITY AUTHORING CONTENT GENERATION AND NAVIGATION - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for creating socially authored, or community authored, summaries of documents and/or for navigating a forum comprising such summaries. In one embodiment, at least some of the summaries are generated automatically when a document is written and/or discovered (e.g., by a web crawler), for example. In another embodiment, the documents are created by users of the forum. A plurality of summaries of a document may be created (e.g., by different users), and users can provide feedback, such as comments or ratings, that may assist other users in identifying which summary or summaries better describe the document. Moreover, the users can navigate the forum and retrieve summaries by browsing categories (and subcategories) to identify a topic of interest and/or by performing a search based upon user inputted search term(s). | 04-28-2016 |
20160124962 | EVALUATING PASSAGES IN A QUESTION ANSWERING COMPUTER SYSTEM - According to an aspect, a processing system of a question answering computer system determines a first set of relations between one or more pairs of terms in a question. The processing system also determines a second set of relations between one or more pairs of terms in a candidate passage including a candidate answer to the question. The processing system matches the first set of relations to the second set of relations. A plurality of scores is determined by the processing system based on the matching. The processing system aggregates the scores to produce an answer score indicative of a level of support that the candidate answer correctly answers the question. | 05-05-2016 |
20160124963 | ANSWER CATEGORY DATA CLASSIFYING USING DYNAMIC THRESHOLDS - Managing confidence data in a question-answering environment is disclosed. Managing confidence data can include sorting, based on a set of answer categories for a subject matter, a first set of a plurality of answers into a first answer category. The first set can correspond to at least one of a third set of a plurality of confidence scores and the second set can correspond to at least one of a fourth set of the plurality of confidence scores. Managing confidence data can include classifying confidence scores of the third set into one of a plurality of confidence buckets using a first threshold and determining a fifth set of a plurality of thresholds using the plurality of confidence scores. Managing confidence data can include classifying unclassified confidence scores of the third set into one of the plurality of confidence buckets using the fifth set of the plurality of thresholds. | 05-05-2016 |
20160124971 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETECTING COMMON PATTERNS WITHIN UNSTRUCTURED DATA ELEMENTS RETRIEVED FROM BIG DATA SOURCES - A method and system for detection of common patterns within unstructured data elements. The method includes searching a plurality of unstructured data elements extracted from big data sources to identify a plurality of patches; extracting the identified plurality of patches; generating, by a signature generator system, at least one signature for each patch; identifying common patterns among the at least one generated signature; clustering the signatures having the identified common patterns; and correlating the generated clusters to identify associations between the respective identified common patterns. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125098 | AGGREGATE SERVICE WITH SEARCH CAPABILITIES - One embodiment provides a method, involving receiving, at a device, input from a user; requesting, using the input, access to an aggregate service device having access to data stored on at least one non-local user device; receiving, at the device, search criteria from the user; receiving results produced by searching the data stored on at least one non-local user device utilizing the search criteria; and displaying, at the device, the results of the searching. | 05-05-2016 |
20160131388 | CONTEXTUAL SCORING IN A BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEM - A method and system for providing actionable options, particularly reporting options, to a user of a building automation system via a user interface (UI) based on a current context of the user includes the system identifying contextual information associated with the UI in a building automation system. A list of predefined (reporting) options is then ranked based on a relevance of each of the predefined options to the contextual information. The ranked list is then presented to the UI. Ranking is achieved by assigning a relevance score to each of the predefined options based on the relevance of metadata associated with the predefined options to the contextual information associated with the UI. The contextual information includes source data from components and devices of the system associated with the user interface. A computer-readable device to store instructions executable by a processor to perform the operations described herein is also provided. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132507 | Search Intent for Queries on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system of a first user, a structured query comprising references to one or more selected objects accessible by the computing device, generating one or more search results corresponding to the structured query, wherein each search result corresponds to a particular object accessible by the computing device, determining one or more search intents based at least on whether one or more of the selected objects referenced in the structured query match objects corresponding to a search intent indexed in a pattern-detection model, and scoring the search results based on one or more of the search intents. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132568 | CONTEXT-BASED SEARCH AND RELEVANCY GENERATION - A computing device receives a trigger to surface relevant content. The device also obtains a variety of different types of cross-source contextual information. Items of content are identified and relevancy weights are obtained based on the contextual information. A relevancy is calculated, based on the relevancy weights, for each item of content. The items of content are surfaced. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132589 | CONTEXT BASED PASSAGE RETREIVAL AND SCORING IN A QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM - According to an aspect, a question answering computer system determines a set of search terms for a given question. A plurality of passages that each includes at least one search term in the set of search terms is identified in response to a search of a document for search terms in the set of search terms. A passage from the plurality of passages is selected. A context based score of the selected passage that indicates the likelihood that the selected passage contains an answer to the question is generated based on criteria that specify a relationship among the set of search terms, content of the passage, and content of at least one other passage in the plurality of passages. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132605 | Service Recommendation Method and Apparatus with Intelligent Assistant - A service recommendation method includes, when a user of a terminal requests a first service from an intelligent assistant, selecting, according to a name of the first service and by using a pre-established service relationship model, a potential service with a degree of relevance to the first service that meets a preset condition from multiple services that the intelligent assistant can provide, where names of the multiple services and degrees of relevance of the multiple services to each other are recorded in the service relationship model; and recommending the potential service to the user. | 05-12-2016 |
20160140126 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTING AND PRESENTING CONTENT BASED ON DYNAMICALLY IDENTIFYING MICROGENRES ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONTENT - A method of selecting and presenting content based on learned user preferences is provided. The method includes providing a content system including a set of content items organized by genre characterizing the content items, and wherein the set of content items contains microgenre metadata further characterizing the content items. The method also includes receiving search input from the user for identifying desired content items and, in response, presenting a subset of content items to the user. The method further includes receiving content item selection actions from the user and analyzing the microgenre metadata within the selected content items to learn the preferred microgenres of the user. The method includes, in response to receiving subsequent user search input, selecting and presenting content items in an order that portrays as relatively more relevant those content items containing microgenre metadata that more closely match the learned microgenre preferences of the user. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140136 | Search Recommendation Method and Apparatus - Provided are a search recommendation method and a search recommendation apparatus, the method comprising: receiving a search term; obtaining a plurality of search results related to the search term, and further obtaining at least one first recommendation result related to the search term; obtaining first relationship information between the search term and the at least one first recommendation result; and providing a search page, in which the search page comprises a first display section and a second display section, the first display section displaying the plurality of search results, and the second display section displaying the at least one first recommendation result and the first relationship information. | 05-19-2016 |
20160147753 | Suggesting Content for Discovery Based on User Interests and Authorship - An online system allows its users to posts content to the system and to see the content posted by other users of the system. The system helps users discover new content and sources thereof that may be interesting. For example, a first user expresses an interest in a content item and communicates that interest to the system. The system then identifies a second user who posted that liked content item and identifies content items in which the second user has communicated an interest. Based on this, the system selects one or more of the content items liked by the second user and provides the selected content items to the first user. The system may decline to send the content item to the first user if it was posted by a third user with whom the first user has already established a connection. | 05-26-2016 |
20160147763 | ENTITY-RELATION BASED PASSAGE SCORING IN A QUESTION ANSWERING COMPUTER SYSTEM - According to an aspect, a query and a passage are parsed by a language parser to detect noun-centric phrases and verb-centric phrases in the query and the passage. Entities, including at least one untyped entity, are identified based on the noun-centric phrases and relations are identified based on the verb-centric phrases. Entity pairs are created that include an entity identified in the query and an entity identified in the passage, each pair satisfies a matching criteria. Relation pairs are created that include a relation identified in the query and a relation identified in the passage, each pair satisfies a matching criteria. A passage score that indicates the likelihood that an answer to the query is contained in the passage is determined based on the entity pairs, the matching criteria satisfied by each entity pair, the elation pairs, and the matching criteria satisfied by each relation pair. | 05-26-2016 |
20160147825 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR UPDATING THE REGISTERED FINGERPRINT DATASETS OF FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION - A method and electronic device for updating registered fingerprint datasets of fingerprint recognition are provided. The method includes the steps of obtaining an verifying fingerprint dataset, wherein an inputting type of the verifying fingerprint dataset is a pressing type and comparing the verifying fingerprint dataset with a plurality of registered fingerprint datasets, wherein the plurality of registered fingerprint datasets are stored in a storage device; when the verifying fingerprint dataset matches one of the plurality of registered fingerprint datasets, determining whether the inputting type of the registered fingerprint dataset is the same as the inputting type of the verifying fingerprint dataset; and if the inputting type of the registered fingerprint dataset is different from the inputting type of the verifying fingerprint dataset, replacing the registered fingerprint dataset with the verifying fingerprint dataset, wherein the inputting type of the registered fingerprint dataset is a swiping type. | 05-26-2016 |
20160147871 | ENTITY-RELATION BASED PASSAGE SCORING IN A QUESTION ANSWERING COMPUTER SYSTEM - According to an aspect, a query and a passage are parsed by a language parser to detect noun-centric phrases and verb-centric phrases in the query and the passage. Entities, including at least one untyped entity, are identified based on the noun-centric phrases and relations are identified based on the verb-centric phrases. Entity pairs are created that include an entity identified in the query and an entity identified in the passage, each pair satisfies a matching criteria. Relation pairs are created that include a relation identified in the query and a relation identified in the passage, each pair satisfies a matching criteria. A passage score that indicates the likelihood that an answer to the query is contained in the passage is determined based on the entity pairs, the matching criteria satisfied by each entity pair, the elation pairs, and the matching criteria satisfied by each relation pair. | 05-26-2016 |
20160147873 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM, AND DATA STRUCTURE - Provided is an information providing system capable of changing a response to an input from a user based on a predetermined response condition and further making a user terminal to perform a specified behavior (action) in outputting the response. An information providing server selects a reference text semantically closest to the input sentence from a user from knowledge data to determine a response text associated with the reference text. If a plurality of response texts are associated with the reference text, the information providing server determines the response in accordance with the response condition. Furthermore, the information providing server controls the user terminal to perform the behavior registered with the reference text. | 05-26-2016 |
20160147896 | Providing Additional Functionality With Search Results - A method includes receiving, at a computing device, a search query from a remote device. The method further includes identifying a primary set of application state records, selecting a first application state record from the primary set of application state records, and identifying an entity name and action associated with the first application state record. The method further includes identifying a second application state record associated with the same entity name as the first application state record and a different action than the first application state record. Additionally, the method includes generating a combined result based on the first application state record and the second application state record, generating search results based on the primary set of application state records, and transmitting the search results to the remote device. The search results include the combined result in addition to search results based on the primary set of application state records. | 05-26-2016 |
20160154799 | Persona-Based Conversation | 06-02-2016 |
20160154856 | DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS INTERFACE AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | 06-02-2016 |
20160154861 | Social-Based Spelling Correction for Online Social Networks | 06-02-2016 |
20160154888 | Ingesting Forum Content | 06-02-2016 |
20160154889 | Persona-Based Conversation | 06-02-2016 |
20160162482 | AUTOMATED IMAGE RANKING - A first image, associated with a first tag, and/or other images may be presented to a user. A user behavior of the user in regards to the first image may reduce or increase a quality score of the first image. A quality metric of the first image may be determined, and may be used to decrease or increase the quality score of the first image. A rank may be assigned to the first image based upon the modified quality score. The first image may be provided to users based upon the rank. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162489 | SERVER APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SEARCH RESULT THEREOF - A server apparatus and a method for providing a search result are provided. The server apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment includes a search word processor configured to search for contents related to a search word from a plurality of search domains, a rule application determining unit configured to determine a decision rule to be applied for an arrangement order of the searched contents and a priority order in which the determined decision rule is to be applied, and a search result providing unit configured to provide a search result by arranging the searched contents based on the determined decision rule and application of the priority order of the determined decision rule. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162581 | DYNAMIC FILTER OPTIMIZATION IN DEEP QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS - Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising providing a plurality of filters in a deep question answering (deep QA) system, wherein each of the filters is configured to remove candidate answers not meeting a set of criteria of each respective filter from further consideration by the deep QA system, determining that a first ordering, of a plurality of orderings of the plurality of filters, is an optimal ordering of the plurality of filters based on a respective filtering metric of each ordering, and configuring the deep QA system to apply the plurality of filters to candidate answers according to the first ordering. | 06-09-2016 |
20160170992 | Search Result Optimization Based on Previous Solutions | 06-16-2016 |
20160170995 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING OF SEARCH RESULTS | 06-16-2016 |
20160179803 | AUGMENTING METADATA USING COMMONLY AVAILABLE VISUAL ELEMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH MEDIA CONTENT | 06-23-2016 |
20160179813 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THEME MANAGEMENT | 06-23-2016 |
20160179819 | Generating Suggested Queries Based on Social Graph Information | 06-23-2016 |
20160179906 | IDENTIFYING RELEVANT MATERIAL FOR CASES | 06-23-2016 |
20160179937 | SCORING ATTRIBUTES IN A DEEP QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM BASED ON SYNTACTIC OR SEMANTIC GUIDELINES | 06-23-2016 |
20160179939 | Using Paraphrase Metrics for Answering Questions | 06-23-2016 |
20160179946 | METHODS FOR GENERATING A MIX OF MUSIC TRACKS | 06-23-2016 |
20160179966 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AUGMENTED PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS | 06-23-2016 |
20160179975 | PERSONALIZED BOOKMARKS FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM ACTIONS BASED ON USER ACTIVITY | 06-23-2016 |
20160188578 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSEMBLING A SET OF DOCUMENTS RELATED TO A TRIGGERING ITEM - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for assembling a set of documents related to a triggering item. One embodiment of a method for assembling a set of electronic documents related to an electronic triggering item detected by a computing device being operated by a user includes automatically extracting by the computing device a set of features from the triggering item, without receiving a request by the user to assemble the set of electronic documents, and assembling as the set of electronic documents a plurality of documents that is relevant to the set of features, wherein the plurality of documents is retrieved from a plurality of different types of electronic sources. | 06-30-2016 |
20160188599 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE SEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD - A search query for searching electronic messages, such as email, may be used to search for different types of items, such as and without limitation electronic messages, contacts, photos, documents, such as and without limitation papers, presentations, etc., business entities, personal information extracted from messages, such as and without limitation purchase orders, shipments, reservations, travel itineraries, etc. Several sources of data, which may be indexed for searching, such as and without limitation a personal mail search index, contacts, or business entity, index, attachments index, extracted data index, etc. may be searched using the search query. A number of top search result items, which may include different types of items, may be presented apart from other search result items. | 06-30-2016 |
20160188605 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IDENTIFYING SIMILAR SCHOOLS - Method, apparatus, and a computer-readable storage device for determining similarities. A plurality of sets having social network service members as entities is constructed by associating each of the social network service members with each of a predetermined selection of professional outcomes by school of graduation of the member. One of the plurality of sets is selected. A similarity algorithm calculates the similarity score of at least some of the plurality of sets in the plurality of sets to the selected one of the plurality of sets, and presents for rendering the k sets in the plurality of sets with the highest similarity scores. The similarity algorithm used may be a cosine similarity algorithm using the sets as vectors. | 06-30-2016 |
20160188619 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCED QUERY TERM SUGGESTION - Method, system, and programs for providing enhanced query term suggestions. Candidate query terms may be obtained based on a prefix of incomplete query terms received. The candidate query terms may be ranked, at least partially based on, their similarities with respect to query terms previously entered in the same search session as the incomplete query term. In some implementations, for determining such similarities, feature vectors and/or signatures may be stored in association with query terms. Similarity between a candidate query term and query terms in the same search session as the incomplete query term may be determined using the feature vectors and/or signatures associated therewith. | 06-30-2016 |
20160188633 | A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRACKING MICROBLOG MESSAGES FOR RELEVANCY TO AN ENTITY IDENTIFIABLE BY AN ASSOCIATED TEXT AND AN IMAGE - A method of tracking microblog messages for relevancy to an entity identifiable by an associated text and an image is disclosed. The method comprises (i) performing a search on the microblog messages based on the associated text to obtain a first set of results; (ii) performing image detection on the first set of results based on the associated image to obtain a set of seed messages; (iii) performing a search on the microblog messages based on a set of characteristics derived from the seed messages to obtain a second set of results; and (iv) selecting entries from the first and second sets of results based on relevancy to the entity, wherein the set of characteristics are associated to the entity. A related apparatus is also disclosed. | 06-30-2016 |
20160188672 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERACTIVE MULTI-RESOLUTION TOPIC DETECTION AND TRACKING - A method for tracking known topics in a plurality of interactions includes: extracting, by a processor, a plurality of fragments from the plurality of interactions; initializing, by the processor, a collection of tracked topics to an empty collection; computing, by the processor, a similarity between each fragment of the fragments and each of the known topics; and adding, by the processor, a known topic of the known topics to the tracked topics in response to the similarity between a fragment and the known topic exceeding a threshold value. | 06-30-2016 |
20160188730 | Device-Specific Search Results - A method includes receiving, by a processing system, a search query and a device type identifier from a user device and identifying, by the processing system, a consideration set of application records based on the search query and the device type identifier. Each application record of the consideration set corresponds to a respective software application and has an initial score associated therewith indicating a degree to which the application record matches the search query. The method also includes determining, by the processing system, a result score of the application record based on the initial score and features corresponding to the application record for each application record. The method further includes generating, by the processing system, device-specific search results based on the consideration set of application records and the result scores thereof and transmitting, by the processing system, the device-specific search results to the user device. | 06-30-2016 |
20160188736 | Client-Side Modification of Search Results Based on Social Network Data - In particular embodiments, a method by a social-networking system comprises receiving, from a client device, a search query from a first user of an online social network, determining, by the social-networking system, one or more network resources that match the search query, accessing a data store of social-graph information to determine one or more second users of the online social network having an association with the first user that have interacted with any of the matching network resources within a particular period of time, ranking the network resources based on a degree of relevance associated with each of the network resources with respect to the search query, and sending, to the client device in response to the search query, one or more search results corresponding to one or more of the matching network resources. | 06-30-2016 |
20160196340 | System And Method For Identifying Relevant Search Results Via An Index | 07-07-2016 |
20160196342 | Plagiarism Document Detection System Based on Synonym Dictionary and Automatic Reference Citation Mark Attaching System | 07-07-2016 |
20160203142 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM | 07-14-2016 |
20160253331 | DETERMINATION OF A SERVICE DESCRIPTION MOST CLOSELY MATCHING A SPECIFIED SERVICE NAME | 09-01-2016 |
20160253332 | RANKED NAVIGATION ELEMENT | 09-01-2016 |
20160253411 | AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF DIGITAL CONTENT RELATED TO A BLOCK OF TEXT, SUCH AS A BLOG ENTRY | 09-01-2016 |
20160378757 | CONCEPT IDENTIFIER RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - Some embodiments include a method of defining a concept taxonomy. The concept taxonomy can be a mechanism to identify user activities that is relevant to a content analysis study. For example, the method can include identify one or more explicit concept identifiers to include in a concept taxonomy on a user interface. The method can include generating a relevant concepts network by identifying one or more potential concept candidates in past user activities within a time window. The relevant concepts network can include the potential concept candidates and the explicit concept identifiers as nodes. A concept taxonomy system can then select at least a subset of the potential concept candidates to present on the user interface as concept recommendations to supplement the concept taxonomy by identifying commonalities between the nodes of the relevant concepts network. | 12-29-2016 |
20160378760 | IDENTIFICATION OF LIFE EVENTS WITHIN SOCIAL MEDIA CONVERSATIONS - Identifying life events within social network feeds. The method may include receiving social media data. The method may include identifying life event data within the social media data. The method may include determining a life event probability score associated with a life event class for the life event data using metadata. The method may include assigning a first life event class to each item of life event data based on the life event probability score. The method may include creating conversations by grouping the life event data. The method may include extracting metadata. The method may include determining a conversation probability score for each conversation based on the metadata and the life event probability score associated with each item of life event data. The method may include assigning a second life event class based on the conversation probability score. The method may include displaying the conversations based on user preferences. | 12-29-2016 |
20160378762 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IDENTIFYING MEDIA ASSETS - Methods and systems are disclosed for a media guidance application that improves the collection and/or validation of data received from multiple sources. For example, the media guidance application may determine how similar received data is to data known to correspond to a particular media asset to determine whether or not the received data corresponds to the particular media asset. Moreover, the media guidance application may normalize the data into a consistent format prior to the determination. By normalizing the data into a consistent format, the media guidance application reduces false negatives when determining whether or not data corresponds to a particular media asset. | 12-29-2016 |
20160378871 | Generating Search Results Using Current Software Application States - Techniques include receiving a search query and an indication of a current application (app) state of a software app executing on a user device from the device and identifying app state records based on the query and, e.g., the indication. In this example, each app state record includes an app access mechanism (AAM) and app state information (ASI). The AAM references a software app and indicates operations for the app to perform. The ASI describes an app state of the software app after performing the operations. In some examples, the techniques further include generating result scores for the identified app state records based on the indication and selecting one or more of the records based on the scores. The techniques also include selecting one or more AAMs from the identified (and, e.g., selected) app state records and transmitting the AAMs to the user device as search results. | 12-29-2016 |
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20220138210 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTION OF A FIRST RECORD OBJECT FOR ASSOCIATION WITH SECOND RECORD OBJECTS BASED ON CONNECTION PROFILES - The present disclosure relates to selection of a first record object for association with second record objects based on connection profiles. Member entities of a second group entity that are associated with second record objects associated with processes may be identified. A second record object having a first object field-value pair identifying the second group entity may be identified. A first member entity having a respective connection score exceeding a threshold may be selected. A notification comprising an identification of the selected first member entity may be transmitted to an electronic account of a node profile. | 05-05-2022 |
20220138247 | TEXT ADJUSTED VISUAL SEARCH - Embodiments of the technology described herein, provide improved visual search results by combining a visual similarity and a textual similarity between images. In an embodiment, the visual similarity is quantified as a visual similarity score and the textual similarity is quantified as a textual similarity score. The textual similarity is determined based on text, such as a title, associated with the image. The overall similarity of two images is quantified as a weighted combination of the textual similarity score and the visual similarity score. In an embodiment, the weighting between the textual similarity score and the visual similarity score is user configurable through a control on the search interface. In one embodiment, the aggregate similarity score is the sum of a weighted visual similarity score and a weighted textual similarity score. | 05-05-2022 |
20220138268 | STYLING A QUERY RESPONSE BASED ON A SUBJECT IDENTIFIED IN THE QUERY - User experience parameters are applied in formatting results to a query for presentation. The user experience parameters correspond to at least one particular subject related to the query. | 05-05-2022 |