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| 707729000 | Location of features in the document | 21 |
| 20100082617 | PAIR-WISE RANKING MODEL FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL - The present invention provides techniques for generating data that is used for ranking documents. In one embodiment, a method involves the step of extracting data features from a number of documents to be ranked. The data features extracted from the documents are established in conjunction with a first feature map and a second feature map, wherein the first feature map and the second feature map are capable of keeping the relative ordering between two document instances. In one embodiment, the two feature maps are specially a divide feature map and a minus feature map. Once the data is mapped, the method involves the step of generating pairwise preferences from the first feature map and the second feature map. Then the pairwise preferences are aggregated into a total order, which can be used to produce one or more relevancy scores. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100153385 | Search in network management UI controls - A network search function is disclosed. A network administrator enters a search term. The search function determines whether any items or network devices listed in a network control user interface match the search term. The network administrator can stipulate whether the match be either an explicit match or an implicit match. All of the matches, if any, are automatically highlighted and selected. Thereby, the network administrator can perform an operation on these matches based on the search function, without having to manually locate and then manually click to select the desired items or network devices. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100205175 | CAP-SENSITIVE TEXT SEARCH FOR DOCUMENTS - A capitalization-sensitive (“Cap-sensitive”) search is a feature that provides the ability to specify as search criteria both a term and a capitalization characteristic or signature of the term. There are conventional approaches that enable a capital-sensitive approach to be performed from within a document. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20110016117 | FUZZY PROXIMITY BOOSTING AND INFLUENCE KERNELS - A method and apparatus are provided for ranking documents according to relevancy scoring. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided for receiving, from a database over a network, a document resulting from a search on a database, the document containing terms that match the search criteria. The method may calculate a standard deviation of a probability distribution function representing a distribution of the terms in the document that match the search criteria. The method may further determine relative distances between the terms in the document that match the search criteria according to the standard deviation. The method may further calculate a proximity boost value using the relative distances, and apply the proximity boost value to a base relevancy score of the document to determine a relevancy ranking. The document may then be ranked according to the relevancy ranking. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110119265 | DYNAMICALLY LINKING RELEVANT DOCUMENTS TO REGIONS OF INTEREST - Document relevance is determined with respect to a region of interest (ROI). A set of location references may be associated with a set of documents. The system selects location references associated with an ROI and then selects documents corresponding to the selected location references. The selected documents can be reported or processed further. A document-location reference index can be accessed when the present system is ‘online’ and processing a request for documents relevant to an ROI. The document-location reference index may be generated and updated while the present system is ‘offline’ and not processing a request for documents. The resulting relevant documents may be provided to a user in response to a document search associated with the ROI or along with an advertisement associated with the ROI. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110131206 | Methods and Apparatus for Presenting Search Results with Indication of Relative Position of Search Terms - Methods and apparatus are provided for presenting search results with indication of relative position of search terms. According to one aspect of the invention, search results are displayed for a search query comprising a plurality of search terms. A search query is received, for example, from a user and at least one document satisfying the search query is obtained. The disclosed method determines a relative position of at least two of the search terms in the document and at least a portion of the document is presented with an indication of the relative position of the at least two search terms in the document. The relative position is indicated using a predefined character to indicate one or more intervening elements between the at least two search terms. A relevance ranking can optionally be presented that is based on the relative position of the at least two search terms. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110161318 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSIGNING TAGS TO DIGITAL CONTENT - A method and apparatus for assigning topical tags to content on a page stored within a searchable digital document environment is provided. An activity log is created for a document including data indicating search queries resulting in the location of the document by a search engine. Keywords are determined from the activity log, and the document is tagged with a tag associated with the keywords. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110252030 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR A SNIPPET BASED PROXIMAL SEARCH - The exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method and computer program products for a snippet based proximal search. A method comprises ranking the documents based on text that is similar to a text snippet. The ranking includes automatically generating proximity queries that include the text snippet, submitting the proximity queries, and collecting the document results. The method comprises selecting a plurality of highest ranked documents to form a subset of documents, extracting snippets from each document in the subset, and creating a vector space model for a set defined by a union of the extracted snippets and the text snippet. The method comprises ranking the extracted snippets according to their vector distances from the input text snippet, and ranking the documents within the subset of documents based on the ranking of the extracted snippets to determine a best matching document in view of the text snippet. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110264660 | TECHNIQUES TO PERFORM RELATIVE RANKING FOR SEARCH RESULTS - Techniques to perform relative ranking for search results are described. An apparatus may include an enhanced search component operative to receive a search query and provide ranked search results responsive to the search query. The enhanced search component may comprise a resource search module operative to search for resources using multiple search terms from the search query, and output a set of resources having some or all of the search terms. The enhanced search component may also comprise a proximity generation module communicatively coupled to the resource search module, the proximity generation module operative to receive the set of resources, retrieve search term position information for each resource, and generate a proximity feature value based on the search term position information. The enhanced search component may further comprise a resource ranking module communicatively coupled to the resource search module and the proximity generation module, the resource ranking module to receive the proximity feature values, and rank the resources based in part on the proximity feature values. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20120150856 | System and method of ranking web sites or web pages or documents based on search words position coordinates - The described systems and methods are directed to ranking web sites or web pages or documents, on internet or intranet, when two or more search words are used to search for web sites or web pages or documents on internet or intranet. Rank of web sites or web pages or documents will be based on the positional correlation matrix created using paired positional correlation of the search words. In order to calculate paired positional correlation; search words will be indexed within a web site or web page or document based on the position of the sentences, in which they occur, and their position within the sentences. It is possible that contents of web sites or web pages or documents are in tabular form instead of textual/descriptive form, in that case, either columns or rows or any other order of table cells can be considered as equivalent to a sentence and can be used to index the search words. Positional correlation matrix can be a, but not limited to, two dimensional representation of the paired positional correlation of the search words. Rank of the web site or web page or document will be based on relevance score, which will, at least in part, be based on search words cumulative paired positional correlation taken from positional correlation matrix. Performance of the system can be improved by calculating positional correlation matrix for web sites or web pages or documents, in advance, based on the key words. Key words can be referred to as the words that web site or web page or document claims to be the best source of information. Relevance score, of the web site or web page or document, can then be readily calculated by picking the paired positional correlation of the search words from the positional correlation matrix of key words, calculated earlier. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20130054590 | IDENTIFYING CONCEPTUALLY RELATED TERMS IN SEARCH QUERY RESULTS - Conceptually related term identification technique embodiments are presented that involve identifying in the results of a search query, terms that are conceptually related to the search query terms. In one general embodiment, this is accomplished by first inputting the terms employed in a search query and the results of the search. Word tokens found in the search query terms are then identified, as are potential phrases that can be made from the identified word tokens. Conceptually related words and phrases are then identified in the search query results. These words and phrases correspond to the previously identified word tokens and potential phrases. The search query results are presented to a user on a display device in such a manner as to visually distinguish the conceptually related words and phrases from other words and phrases in the search query results. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130212092 | Multi-Stage Query Processing System and Method for Use with Tokenspace Repository - A multi-stage query processing system and method enables multi-stage query scoring, including “snippet” generation, through incremental document reconstruction facilitated by a multi-tiered mapping scheme. At one or more stages of a multi-stage query processing system a set of relevancy scores are used to select a subset of documents for presentation as an ordered list to a user. The set of relevancy scores can be derived in part from one or more sets of relevancy scores determined in prior stages of the multi-stage query processing system. In some embodiments, the multi-stage query processing system is capable of executing one or more passes on a user query, and using information from each pass to expand the user query for use in a subsequent pass to improve the relevancy of documents in the ordered list. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130282711 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Assessing Risks of Internet Searches - Some embodiments, among others, include a search for sensitive information. Once a result of the search has been obtained, a score is assigned to the obtained result in accordance with a predefined criterion. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20140032545 | IDENTIFYING WEB PAGES OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB RELEVANT TO A FIRST FILE USING SEARCH TERMS THAT REPRODUCE ITS CITATIONS - 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. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140101147 | SEARCH - A computer system for assisting searching of a database of a plurality of attributes, measures and content in order to answer analytical queries, the system comprising an input device for receiving word queries requesting information and/or metrics from the database a processor configured to process word queries requesting information and/or metrics from the database; and a storage memory containing a plurality of responses to word queries which responses contain and/or correspond to attributes, content and/or measures of the database, and containing one or more ordered combinations of attributes wherein the attributes of the ordered combinations are in a set order, the processor configured to match one or more words in a received word query with one or more attribute, content and/or measure in or corresponding to the stored responses, to provide relevant responses to the input word query based on the matching, and to rank the relevant responses, wherein the ranking of each relevant response is based at least partially on the position of one or more matched attributes of that relevant response within at least one ordered combination. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140201203 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING AN AUTOMATED ELECTRONIC RESEARCHER - A research system, method and device directed to providing a query results tree of logical dependencies in response to one or more user queries. Specifically, the research system includes a searcher module, an inference module, a front-end module and an updater module. A user query is received by the front-end module and forwarded to the searcher and inference modules, which in addition to obtaining related results from one or more databases, filter and structure the results such that only highly relevant results are returned and that those results are already organized into one or more hierarchical structures for navigation by the user. In addition, the updater module is able to periodically cause any new data on the databases to be inputted by the search and inference modules and added to the existing results in order to maintain a fully updated results structure. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20160085761 | UNIFORM SEARCH, NAVIGATION AND COMBINATION OF HETEROGENEOUS DATA - A unified interface that abstracts the underlying differences among heterogeneous data sources and data formats to produce uniform search results. While the result of an initial search may be exactly what the user was seeking, it is likely that the result is in the neighborhood of what was sought. It may aid the end user to provide guided data navigation suggestions to locate related data during data exploration, by providing analysis to identify data similarities among disparate data sources, and by providing guided combination options. The guided data navigation suggestions may include suggestions based on schematic, semantic, and social information. Guided data navigation may aid the user in moving from the initial search landing point in the data to the precise result sought. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160154800 | TEXT REPRESENTATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160154803 | TEXT REPRESENTATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160162486 | COMPUTER-ENABLED METHOD OF ASSISTING TO GENERATE AN INNOVATION - According to the present invention there is provided a computer-enabled method of assisting to generate an innovation, the method comprising the steps of: retrieving from a database a first set of more than two documents belonging to a first domain (D | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160179821 | Searching Inside Items | 06-23-2016 |
