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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8078617 | Model based ad targeting System and method for quickly selecting content items (e.g., documents) having highest ranking scores in response to a query for content items. Base scores for a plurality of content items are determined based on attributes of the content items. One or more attribut... | 12/13/2011 |
| RE41901 | Method and apparatus for retrieving accumulating and sorting table formatted data This invention provides a method and apparatus for searching for and tabulating table-format data that not only has the functions of a conventional data table but also greatly increases the speed of searching for and tabulating large amounts of data. The method for ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7802177 | Hypervideo: information retrieval using time-related multimedia Disclosed is a method and device for selecting documents, such as Web pages or sites, for presentation to a user, in response to a user expression of interest, during the course of presentation to the user of a document, such as a video or audio selection, whose con... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7765178 | Search ranking estimation A searcher can be configured to improve relevance ranking of search results through iterative weighting of search ranking results. A Search Auto Categorizer (SAC) operates on a base query to return a probabilistic distribution of leaf categories of a taxonomy in whi... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7752534 | Method and apparatus for customizing the display of multidimensional data A Tag Cloud Customizer (TCC) provides an interactive legend and a tag cloud generator that allows a user to customize a tag cloud. The interactive legend allows users to map custom display characteristics to a plurality of tag attributes. The tag cloud generator cre... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7734569 | Recommender system for identifying a new set of media items responsive to an input set of media items and knowledge base metrics Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying a new set of media items in response to an input set (or “query set”) of media items and knowledge base metrics. The system uses a knowledge base consisting of a collection of mediasets. Various metrics among med... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7734568 | DVD metadata wizard Methods and systems are described that enhance a user's experience when playing a DVD through an enabled media player. One or more databases, managed by a server, maintain metadata associated with DVDs. When a DVD is loaded using the enabled media player, a DVD ID i... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7730013 | System and method for searching dates efficiently in a collection of web documents A date querying system processes free-form text in documents to identify and locate some or all of the dates in the documents using extended regular expression matching to capture various date formats. The system packages a canonicalized format of each identified da... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7720792 | Automatic stop word identification and compensation Disclosed are methods and computer program products for automatically identifying and compensating for stop words in a text processing system. This automatic stop word compensation allows such operations as performing queries on an abstract mathematical space built ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7716161 | Methods and apparatus for serving relevant advertisements The relevance of advertisements to a user's interests is improved. In one implementation, the content of a web page is analyzed to determine a list of one or more topics associated with that web page. An advertisement is considered to be relevant to that web page if... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7716162 | Classification of ambiguous geographic references A location classifier generates location information based on textual strings in input text. The location information defines potential geographical relevance of the input text. In determining the location information, the location classifier may receive at least on... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7707147 | Self-organization approach to semantic interoperability in peer-to-peer information exchange In the exchange of information in a peer-to-peer information system network, the problem of semantic interoperability of the communication system used by the agent associated with every peer is addressed not by imposing a universal pre-defined ontology over universa... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7702627 | Efficient interaction among cost-based transformations During query optimization, when a particular type of transformation is considered, the effect of performing one or more subsequent kinds of transformations is also considered in conjunction with the first. When applying a transformation, which forecloses applying an... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702626 | Simplified validity range selection In one embodiment, the invention is a method. The method includes receiving a validity statement including a range and an identifier from a user interface. The method further includes determining the identifier indicates a validity range statement. The method also i... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698267 | Searching digital information and databases This application describes methods for searching digital information such as digital documents (e.g., web pages) and computer databases, and specific search techniques such as authority ranking and information retrieval (IR) relevance ranking in keyword searches. In... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7698266 | Meaning-based advertising and document relevance determination A method for advertising on electronic data networks based upon semantic differentiation. ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7698268 | Method and system for filtering false positives Embodiments of the present invention may be used in the generation of an overall weight from the comparison of various attributes of data records, where the linking of the data records is dependent on the overall weight. More specifically, embodiments of the present... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7689555 | Context insensitive model entity searching Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for context insensitive model entity searching are provided. A model entity is used to identify to a central entity or concept modeled by a database abstraction model. Instances of a model entity may be defined in refere... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7689556 | Content navigation service A system, method, and computer program product for presenting items within a list of items based on an individual user profile, a social network of friends of the user or a mood of the user. The system generates the individual profile of the user, determines passive... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7685118 | Method using ontology and user query processing to solve inventor problems and user problems A system, method and computer program product for solving a problem based on ontology methods for data/knowledge presentation and processing, may be implemented in a linguistic processing module. The basic components of the linguistic processing module may be a ling... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7685117 | Method for implementing search engine A system and method for implementing/influencing a search engine which provides search results to users based on characteristics of certain trendsetter web pages identified on the Internet. The trendsetter web page are determined by studying historical adoption beha... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7685119 | System and method for query expansion A system is disclosed for expanding a user query based on user learned popularity rankings. User queries often have no exact match, resulting in a user having to refine or abandon the search. The disclosed system obtains popularity rankings based on the content of a... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7685120 | Method for generating and prioritizing multiple search results A method for generating and prioritizing multiple search results is disclosed. A database stores search results in an information storage and retrieval system. A search program executes on a computer system coupled to the database. The search program receives a sear... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7680787 | Database query generation method and system A process for generating SQL queries to retrieve requested information from a database, whilst applying requested search filters, involving defining a “base” query, which is the simplest SQL query that can be executed to retrieve the information requested by the... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7680786 | Optimization of targeted advertisements based on user profile information A system and method to facilitate optimization of targeted advertisements based on user profile information are described. A set of event keywords associated with an event or action performed by the user or an agent of the user is identified in a data storage module... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7680785 | Systems and methods for inferring uniform resource locator (URL) normalization rules Different URLs that actually reference the same web page or other web resource are detected and that information is used to only download one instance of a web page or web resource from a web site. All web pages or web resources downloaded from a web server are comp... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7676464 | Page-ranking via user expertise and content relevance A page-ranking method includes mining a portion of content of a user workstation which is connectable to a network to detect references to pages of the network. The pages may be ranked based on the detected references. ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7676465 | Techniques for clustering structurally similar web pages based on page features Web page clustering techniques described herein are URL Clustering and Page Clustering, whereby clustering algorithms cluster together pages that are structurally similar. Regarding URL clustering, because similarly structured pages have similar patterns in their UR... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7676462 | Method, apparatus, and program for refining search criteria through focusing word definition A search engine is provided that includes a refinement mechanism. The search engine receives and parses a search expression and delimits the expression into individual terms or words. The refinement mechanism includes a directory of related terms and a directory of ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7676463 | Information exploration systems and method Disclosed information exploration system and method embodiments operate on a document set to determine a document cluster hierarchy. An exclusionary phrase index is determined for each cluster, and representative phrases are selected from the indexes. The selection ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672939 | System and method providing automated margin tree analysis and processing of sampled data The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate database processing in accordance with a plurality of various applications. In one aspect, a large database of objects is processed, wherein the objects can be represented as points in a vector ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7668821 | Recommendations based on item tagging activities of users A system provides a user interface through which users can flexibly tag individual items represented in an electronic catalog with user-defined tags, such as text strings, and obtain recommendations that are specific to particular tags. The tags and tag-item assignm... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668822 | Method for assigning quality scores to documents in a linked database Exemplary methods for assigning relative rank values to a plurality of linked documents are provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises constructing or modeling a nodal network according to a connectivity graph of a linked database and determining conductance ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668820 | Method for linking de-identified patients using encrypted and unencrypted demographic and healthcare information from multiple data sources A longitudinal database of de-identified patient healthcare transaction data records linked by longitudinal linking tags (IDs) is provided. A new healthcare transaction data record, which may include alphanumeric identification code attributes, third party attribute... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668823 | Identifying inadequate search content Systems and methods for identifying inadequate search content are provided. Inadequate search content, for example, can be identified based on statistics associated with the search queries related to the content. ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7664746 | Personalized search and headlines The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates providing a personalized set of available content. An interface can receive a content vector associated with available content and a profile vector associated with a user preference. Addit... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664747 | System for creating and maintaining a database of information utilizing user opinions A system for automatically creating and maintaining a database of information utilizing user opinions about subjects, particularly exceptional experiences. Described is an Internet system assisting/motivating a population of users interested in information about cer... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7660793 | Method and system for high performance integration, processing and searching of structured and unstructured data using coprocessors Disclosed herein is a method and system for integrating an enterprise's structured and unstructured data to provide users and enterprise applications with efficient and intelligent access to that data. Queries can be directed toward both an enterprise's structured a... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660791 | System and method for determining initial relevance of a document with respect to a given category A system and method are provided for determining document relevance determination to a selected category for a document contained within a linked network of documents. The network may be represented by a network map including nodes representing documents and edges r... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660792 | System and method for spam identification A system and method are provided for improving a user search experience by identifying spam results in a result set produced in response to a query. The system may include a user interface spam feedback mechanism for allowing a user to indicate that a given result i... | 02/09/2010 |
