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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 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... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110035345 | AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION OF SEGMENTED PORTIONS OF WEB PAGES Exemplary methods and apparatuses are provided which may be used for classifying and indexing segmented portions of web pages and providing related information for use in information extraction and/or information retrieval systems.... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110029477 | INFORMATION SIMILARITY AND RELATED STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES FOR USE IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS Embodiments of methods, systems and/or apparatuses relating to data processing in distributed computing environments are disclosed. In particular, methods, systems, and/or apparatuses for determining information similarly and/or performing related statistical techniques... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110016268 | PHASE CHANGE MEMORY IN A DUAL INLINE MEMORY MODULE Subject matter disclosed herein relates to management of a memory device.... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20100332950 | BIT ERROR THRESHOLD AND CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORY TO ADDRESS A REMAPPED MEMORY DEVICE Subject matter disclosed herein relates to remapping memory devices.... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332895 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY TO STORE MEMORY REMAP INFORMATION Subject matter disclosed herein relates to remapping memory devices.... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332894 | BIT ERROR THRESHOLD AND REMAPPING A MEMORY DEVICE Subject matter disclosed herein relates to remapping a memory device.... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332491 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UTILIZING USER SELECTION DATA TO DETERMINE RELEVANCE OF A WEB DOCUMENT FOR A SEARCH QUERY Methods and systems are provided that may be used to utilize user selection data on web documents in a list of search results to provide relevant search results in response to a search query.... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100313205 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OFFLINE DATA GENERATION FOR ONLINE SYSTEM ANALYSIS The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and/or method offline data generation for online system analysis.... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100306210 | CLUSTERING IDENTICAL OR DISJOINT KEYWORD SETS FOR USE WITH AUCTIONS FOR ONLINE ADVERTISING SPACE Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, or systems relating to clustering identical or disjoint keyword sets for use with auctions for online advertising space.... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100287174 | IDENTIFYING A LEVEL OF DESIRABILITY OF HYPERLINKED INFORMATION OR OTHER USER SELECTABLE INFORMATION Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, or systems relating to identifying a level of desirability of a hyperlink or search query using experience score.... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100287129 | SYSTEM, METHOD, OR APPARATUS RELATING TO CATEGORIZING OR SELECTING POTENTIAL SEARCH RESULTS Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with categorizing or selecting potential search engine results are disclosed.... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100280889 | INVENTORY AGGREGATION ON AN ELECTRONIC EXCHANGE The subject matter disclosed herein relates to online advertising inventory purchase controls.... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100274795 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING A COMPOSITE DATABASE Methods and systems are provided that may be used to selectively implement and/or search a composite database comprising a flat file and a relational database based on the query.... | 10/28/2010 |
| 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 |
| 20100257175 | METHOD, SYSTEM, OR APPARATUS FOR JOINING ONE OR MORE EVENTS Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with events and joining events are disclosed.... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100228745 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR SORTING AT LEAST PARTIALLY DYNAMIC DATA Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with sorting candidate values are disclosed.... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100217648 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTIFYING USER INTERACTIONS WITH WEB ADVERTISEMENTS Methods and systems are provided that may be used to determine a probability of whether a visitor to a web document is likely to click on a web advertisement. An exemplary method may include detecting one or more features in a web document. One or more expert statistica... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100205213 | NON-EXACT CACHE MATCHING The subject matter disclosed herein relates to returning cached object results based at least in part on a non-exact comparison with a query key.... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100205183 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING SELECTIVE DECODING OF SEARCH RESULT MESSAGES Methods and systems are provided that may be used to selectively decode results in messages received from child nodes for a particular search query.... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100199165 | UPDATING WRAPPER ANNOTATIONS Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, or systems relating to updating wrapper annotations are disclosed.... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100198770 | IDENTIFYING PREVIOUSLY ANNOTATED WEB PAGE INFORMATION Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, or systems relating to identifying previously annotated web page information are disclosed.... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100198689 | METHOD, SYSTEM, OR APPRATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING A BUDGET BALANCED/SURPLUS SYNDICATED SPONSORED SEARCH MARKET Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, or systems relating to implementing a budget balanced/surplus syndicated sponsored search market.... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100198688 | METHOD, SYSTEM, OR APPARATUS FOR A TRUTHFUL PRICING SCHEME FOR A SELLER Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, or systems relating to truthful pricing schemes for a seller.... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100169756 | AUTOMATED BOOKMARKING The subject matter disclosed herein relates to automatically generating bookmarks associating user accounts with individual links based at least in part on tracked user access data.... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100169339 | SYSTEM, METHOD, OR APPARATUS FOR UPDATING STORED SEARCH RESULT VALUES Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with updating stored internet search query result values are disclosed.... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100158395 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING IMAGE SPAM Methods and systems are provided that may be used to determine a whether an image contains spam. In one particular embodiment, an image is transformed and spam is detected based on such a transformed image.... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100131545 | Distribution Data Items Within Geographically Distributed Databases The subject matter disclosed herein relates to distribution data items within geographically distributed databases.... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100131488 | Digital Images of Web Pages Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, or systems relating to digital images of web pages are disclosed.... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100121721 | PREMIUM BIDDING OF ONLINE ADVERTISEMENTS The subject matter disclosed herein relates to utilizing one or more premium rules to associate a premium markup to a base bid for online advertising.... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100114970 | DISTRIBUTED INDEX DATA STRUCTURE The subject matter disclosed herein relates to forming a computer generated distributed index data structure.... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100106704 | CROSS-LINGUAL QUERY CLASSIFICATION The subject matter disclosed herein relates to cross-lingual query classification.... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100104259 | CONTENT-BASED VIDEO DETECTION Subject matter disclosed herein relates to a method of detecting video content, and in particular, to a method of defining one or more digital fingerprints to identify video content.... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100088186 | ADVERTISING INVENTORY CONTROLS Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, or systems associated with advertising inventory controls are disclosed.... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100083288 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR APPLICATION PROGRAM MANAGEMENT PLATFORM Methods and systems are provided that may be used to provide flexibility to a program developer so that certain values used in an application program need not be hard coded directly into the application program's code. An exemplary method may include defining at least o... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100082608 | SYSTEM, METHOD, OR APPARATUS RELATING TO DETERMINING SEARCH RESULTS BASED AT LEAST IN PART ON ONE OR MORE CONTEXT FEATURES Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with determining search results are disclosed.... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100082542 | COMPARISON OF ONLINE ADVERTISING DATA CONSISTENCY The subject matter disclosed herein relates to initiating a comparison of a source snapshot including current source advertising data with a destination snapshot including current destination advertising data taken at the same logical time as such a source snapshot.... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100082428 | DISPLAY ADVERTISING INVENTORY ESTIMATION Example embodiments described herein may relate to estimating inventory for a display advertising system utilized, for example, in Web-based advertising.... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100082424 | OFFLINE OPTIMIZATION OF ONLINE PROCESSES Subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system for managing online resources, and in particular, to a system using an offline process to optimize the management of such online resources.... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100082401 | FORECASTING FOR ADVERTISING INVENTORY ALLOCATION Subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system for managing online advertising, and in particular, to pricing of advertising inventory and its allocation to advertising campaigns.... | 04/01/2010 |
