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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7454409 | Displaying paid search listings in proportion to advertiser spending In a pay for placement database search system, in which advertisers pay to include their search listings in a database to be provided with search results in response to queries from searchers, each advertiser decides how much money he wants to spend on a search term... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7447691 | System and method to determine the validity of an interaction on a network The methods and systems of the invention utilize limited data to yield information about the validity of any given interaction with a website. Once validity information is available, an operator can determine whether or not to continue offering interactions to a giv... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7441044 | Countrytagging A method that iteratively determines which web pages and web sites are of interest to a particular user in accordance with that user's geographic location or country. The described embodiment of the present invention determines zero or more countrytags for each web ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440944 | Method and apparatus for efficient training of support vector machines The present invention provides a system and method for building fast and efficient support vector classifiers for large data classification problems which is useful for classifying pages from the World Wide Web and other problems with sparse matrices and large numbe... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7406460 | Technique for ranking records of a database A technique for ranking records of a database is disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the technique may be realized as a method for ranking records of a database located during a search of an index to the database performed in response to a query, wher... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7398266 | Dynamically categorizing entity information A set of criteria is acquired that defines a category of entities. The set of criteria is dynamically applied to identify an entity that meets the criteria. It is determined that the entity is registered as having control over at least a portion of a World-Wide Web ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398461 | Method for ranking web page search results A system for indexing a document including: receiving a document to be processed for inclusion in an index of documents; locating a set of documents that include hyperlinks to the document; retrieving anchortext associated with each hyperlink; parsing the anchortext... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7373599 | Method and system for optimum placement of advertisements on a webpage A method and system for placement of graphical objects on a page to optimize the occurrence of an event associated with such objects. The graphical objects might include, for instance, advertisements on a webpage, and the event would include a user clicking on that ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7363300 | System and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engine A system and method for enabling information providers using a computer network to influence a position for a search listing within a search result list. A database stores accounts for the network information providers. Each account contains contact and billing info... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7330857 | Search engine with two-dimensional linearly scalable parallel architecture In a search engine with two-dimensional scalable architecture for searching of a collection of documents, the search engine comprises data processing units which forms set of nodes connected in a network, a first set of nodes comprising dispatch nodes, a second set ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7308445 | Method for estimating coverage of web search engines A computerized method is used to estimate the relative coverage of Web search engines. Each search engine maintains an index of words of pages located at specific URL addresses in a network. The method generates a random query. The random query is a logical combinat... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7266551 | Method and system for generating a set of search terms A method and system for providing a set of search terms in response to a user input are disclosed. A first set of search terms is selected from a master set of search terms based upon a match between the input and the search terms or based upon a predefined associat... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260583 | Web page connectivity server construction A process for constructing a server for collecting, arranging and storing data that defines the connectivity of pages on the World Wide Web (Web). The process input is a set of compressed ASCII links files, wherein each links file is a series of source URLs and corr... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7240064 | Search engine with hierarchically stored indices A search engine comprising a crawler which crawls the WWW and stores pages found on the WWW in a database. An indexer indexes the pages in the database to produce a primary index. A document mapping section maps pages in the database into a plurality of tiers based ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7231395 | Method and apparatus for categorizing and presenting documents of a distributed database Described herein are methods for creating categorized documents, categorizing documents in a distributed database and categorizing Resulting Pages. Also described herein is an apparatus for searching a distributed database. The method for creating categorized docume... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231358 | Automatic flight management in an online marketplace A database search system includes a database of search terms, each search term associated with a bid amount payable by an advertiser of a plurality of advertisers and a search engine responsive to search queries from searchers for searching the database. A flight ma... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7225184 | Disambiguation of search phrases using interpretation clusters In one implementation a method for disambiguation of search phrases is provided, which may include identifying interpretation clusters using bidded search terms of content providers and influencing a position of a search result in a search results list based on the ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225182 | Recommending search terms using collaborative filtering and web spidering In a pay-for-placement search system, the system makes search term recommendations to advertisers managing their accounts in one or more of two ways. A first technique involves looking for good search terms directly on an advertiser's web site. A second technique in... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7219090 | Method and system for blending search engine results from disparate sources into one search result Provided is a method and system for blending a plurality of search engine results from a respective plurality of search sources into one search engine. A result list of entries is received from each search source. Each result list includes at least, for each entry o... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7203747 | Load balancing system and method in a multiprocessor system A system and method are disclosed for selecting a resource, among a plurality of resources, for servicing a request. To select a resource to service the request, a first resource is randomly selected. If a first load value associated with the first resource does not... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7197497 | Method and apparatus for machine learning a document relevance function Provided is a method and computer program product for determining a document relevance function for estimating a relevance score of a document in a database with respect to a query. For each of a plurality of test queries, a respective set of result documents is col... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7184972 | Retail coupon distribution apparatus and method A mobile communication system utilizes a mobile two-way communication device such as a cellular telephone, pager, personal digital assistant (PDA), palm-held computing device, and the like, connected to a network. The mobile two-way communication device has a displa... | 02/27/2007 |
| 6983272 | System and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engine A system and method for enabling information providers using a computer network such as the Internet to influence a position for a search listing within a search result list generated by an Internet search engine. The system and method of the present invention provi... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6983280 | Automated processing of appropriateness determination of content for search listings in wide area network searches A method and system for improving the efficiency of a database processing system for evaluating candidate data items representing search listings that are submitted for inclusion into a search engine database. Candidate search listings are automatically assessed for... | 01/03/2006 |
