Canonicalization of terms in a keyword-based presentation system
Patent 7007014 Issued on February 28, 2006. Estimated Expiration Date: 
November 7, 2023. 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.
November 7, 2023. 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.Patent ReferencesText storage and retrieval system and method Refining search queries by the suggestion of correlated terms from prior searches Patent #: 6006225 InventorsAssigneeApplicationNo. 10703688 filed on 11/07/2003US Classes:707/3, Query processing (i.e., searching)707/10, Distributed or remote access705/15, Restaurant or bar705/26, Electronic shopping (e.g., remote ordering)705/27, Presentation of image or description of sales item (e.g., electronic catalog browsing)715/513, Structured document (e.g., HTML, SGML, ODA, CDA)715/520, Area designation707/104.1, Application of database or data structure (e.g., distributed, multimedia, image)707/5, Query augmenting and refining (e.g., inexact access)704/1, LINGUISTICS704/4Based on phrase, clause, or idiomExaminersPrimary: Wong, LeslieAttorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassG06F 17/30AbstractA presentation system accepts presentations or references to presentations from prospective presenters, some or all of which are stored in a database and referenced by keywords such that presentations to be presented in response to particular searches can be identified. A presentation manager handles accepting bids and settling terms between prospective presenters. The results of such processes might be stored in a presentation details database and a presentation server handles retrieving presentations from there for presentation to users along with requests. Both the presentation manager and the presentation server can operate on a keywords-basis, wherein presentation terms specify keywords to be associated with particular presentations and the presentation server serves particular presentations based on keywords in a search query for which the presentations are to be returned. The association of keywords can be done using canonicalization so that, under certain conditions, different keywords are treated as the same keyword. | |
