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Internet based method for facilitating networking among persons with similar interests and for facilitating collaborative searching for information

Patent 6745178 Issued on June 1, 2004. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject April 28, 2020. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Application

No. 09561227 filed on 04/28/2000

US Classes:

707/3, Query processing (i.e., searching)707/6, Pattern matching access707/7Sorting

Examiners

Primary: Vu, Hien
Assistant: Ly, Anh

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Class

G06F 1730

Abstract

A method in a computer network for identifying users with similar interests is described. The method includes accepting a first query statement from a first user and storing a first item of information related to the first query. The method further includes accepting a second query from a second user and storing a second item of information related to the second query. The method further includes computing a measure of similarity of the first query and the second query by using the first item of information and the second item of information. A system and computer readable medium for carrying out the above method is also described.

Other References

  • “Information Quality of Commercial web Site Home Pages: An Explorative Analysis” —Xiaoni Zhang, Kellie B. Keeling and Robert J. Pavur-ACM-Information systems Dec. 2000, (pps: 164-175).*
  • “Yahoo! as an Ontology: Using Yahoo! Categories to Describe Documents”-Yannis Larou & Tim Finin—ACM-Nov. 1999, (pps: 180-187).*
  • “CiteSeer: An Autonomous Web Agent for Automatic retrieval and Identification of Interesting Publications”—Kurt D. Bollacker, Steve Lawrence & C. Lee Giles-ACM-May 1999, (pps: 116-123).*
  • “Interactivity: The Web's New Standard”—Joe Dysart-ACM-Mixed Media Dec.1998, (pps: 30-36).*
  • http://www.peoplelink.com.
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