Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080320021 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING INFORMATION BASED ON PUBLISHER-SELECTED LABELS - Publishers define relationships between their own content items (e.g., World Wide Web pages) and content items created or maintained by other publishers. A central namespace manager provides grouping labels that publishers insert into their content items. Content items having matching grouping labels are identified as related. Different classes of grouping labels can be used to define different types of relationships, and multiple classes of grouping labels can co-exist. Grouping labels are made available to an information server such as a search server, which uses the labels in identifying content items related to a currently displayed content item. | 12-25-2008 |
20090006576 | COOPERATIVE LOCATION BASED TASKS - A method for providing location dependent information to a user for selective colleague assistance. The method on a Client Wireless Component includes the steps of receiving location data from a plurality of Global Positioning System GPS satellites and transmitting the location data to an Active Calendar Component. The method further includes on an Active Calendar Component the steps of receiving Client Wireless Component location data and determining if within a threshold distance a Colleague item list exists for user completion. | 01-01-2009 |
20090019045 | SYNTHESZING INFORMATION-BEARING CONTENT FROM MULTIPLE CHANNELS - A computing system and method receive a query; separate a plurality of information sources into individual elements of content (EOC); tag each EOC with metadata that indicate source, date, and other relevant information; pattern match each EOC; calculate the respective distance function from every EOC to every other EOC; and output EOC to a set of virtual buffers ( | 01-15-2009 |
20090070326 | SEARCH SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING IN-LINE CONTEXTUAL QUERIES - Systems and methods are provided for implementing searches using contextual information associated with a Web page (or other document) that a user is viewing when a query is entered. The page includes a contextual search interface that has an associated context vector representing content of the page. When the user submits a search query via the contextual search interface, the query and the context vector are both provided to the query processor and used in responding to the query. | 03-12-2009 |
20090077072 | USER ENTERTAINMENT AND ENGAGEMENT ENHANCEMENTS TO SEARCH SYSTEM - According to one aspect of the present invention, a method of actively engaging a user of a search system can include receiving from the user a search query for a search of a corpus of information and providing the user with search results for the search. The user can also be prompted to participate in a search-related activity wherein at least one aspect of the search-related activity is dependent on a context of the search. User input for performing the search-related activity can be accepted and an activity response can be provided to the user. | 03-19-2009 |
20090083270 | SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR HANDLING ANCHOR TEXT - Disclosed is a system and program for processing anchor text for information retrieval. A set of anchors that point to a target document is formed. Anchors with same anchor text are grouped together. Information is computed for each group. Context information is generated for the target document based on the computed information. | 03-26-2009 |
20090171869 | HOT TERM PREDICTION FOR CONTEXTUAL SHORTCUTS - Subject matter disclosed herein may relate to predicting hot terms, and may also relate to creating contextual shortcuts based, at least in part, on the predicted hot terms. | 07-02-2009 |
20090209228 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PERSONAL AND EMERGENCY SERVICE HAILING IN WIRELESS NETWORK - A method and system for providing personal and emergency service hailing. A profile database stores profiles with individualized distance thresholds for each of a number of wireless devices. A wireless message proximity request is received from a requesting wireless device. Distances between a location of the requesting wireless device and locations of each of other wireless communications devices is computed and compared to individualized distance thresholds stored for the requesting wireless communications device. A set of wireless devices consisting of wireless devices that satisfy the individualized distance thresholds for the requesting wireless communications device is identified and a wireless message proximity response is sent to the requesting wireless communications device. The wireless message proximity response identifies the set of wireless communications devices that satisfy the at least one individualized distance threshold. | 08-20-2009 |
20090249256 | DYNAMIC CONTEXTUAL SHORTCUTS - Subject matter disclosed herein may relate to dynamically selecting and/or determining terms for use with contextual shortcuts in electronic documents such as, for example, web pages. | 10-01-2009 |
20090276399 | RANKING DOCUMENTS THROUGH CONTEXTUAL SHORTCUTS - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to ranking and/or indexing of documents based at least in part on user interaction with contextual shortcuts. | 11-05-2009 |
20100070484 | USER INTERFACES FOR SEARCH SYSTEMS USING IN-LINE CONTEXTUAL QUERIES - Systems and methods, including user interfaces, are provided for implementing searches using contextual information associated with a Web page (or other document) that a user is viewing when a query is entered. The page includes a contextual search interface that has an associated context vector representing content of the page. When the user submits a search query via the contextual search interface, the query and the context vector are both provided to the query processor and used in responding to the query. | 03-18-2010 |
20100185691 | SCALABLE SEMI-STRUCTURED NAMED ENTITY DETECTION - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for performing named entity recognition. A set of candidates and corresponding contexts are obtained, each of the set of candidates being a potential seed example of an entity. The contexts of at least a portion of the set of candidates are compared with contexts of a set of seed examples of the entity such that a subset of the set of candidates are added to the set of the seed examples. A set of rules are created from the set of seed examples obtained in the comparing step. A final set of seed examples of the entity is generated by executing the set of rules against the set of candidates. | 07-22-2010 |
20100332967 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING WEB PAGE AUGMENTATION - Embodiments of the present application provide methods and systems for automatically generating web page augmentation for web pages. In one embodiment, a computer implemented method for automatically providing a web page augmentation is provided. The method includes analyzing content of a web page to determine if a web page augmentation is needed for the web page. If the web page augmentation is needed, the method proceeds to determine a type of web page augmentation needed for the web page based on the content of the web page. The method also includes issuing a request to generate the web page augmentation, and receiving the web page augmentation sent by a web page augmentation generating system. The method further includes displaying the web page augmentation. | 12-30-2010 |
20110060667 | MONETIZATION OF INTERACTIVE NETWORK-BASED INFORMATION OBJECTS - An information objects is defined that is representative of a real-world entity (e.g., a product or a service). The information object may be stored in a data store. The information object has an associated owner. A communication channel is associated with the information object that is configurable to route communications to a manager assigned to the information object. A party is enabled to obtain management of the information object for a time period. The communication channel is configured to route to the party requests that are made by interacting with the information object during the time period. A plurality of users is enabled to interact with the information object during the time period to input requests to the party over the communication channel. | 03-10-2011 |
20110131282 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY BUILDING UP TOPIC-SPECIFIC MESSAGING IDENTITIES - A method for automating interaction with a messaging system receives a first message from the messaging system, associates the first message with a topic, assigns the first message to an identity associated with the topic, maps content to the first message, creates a second message based on the content, and sends, via the identity, the second message to the messaging system. The first message may be screened for quality and assigned a quality score, and if the quality score does not exceed a predetermined threshold, then the second message will not be sent to the messaging system. | 06-02-2011 |
20130024474 | USER INTERFACES FOR SEARCH SYSTEMS USING IN-LINE CONTEXTUAL QUERIES - Systems and methods, including user interfaces, are provided for implementing searches using contextual information associated with a Web page (or other document) that a user is viewing when a query is entered. The page includes a contextual search interface that has an associated context vector representing content of the page. When the user submits a search query via the contextual search interface, the query and the context vector are both provided to the query processor and used in responding to the query. | 01-24-2013 |
20130124646 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING, COLLECTING, ENRICHING AND RANKING OF EMAIL OBJECTS - Enriching emails includes: receiving a user's email messages; performing a semantic analysis on the email message body; deriving a plurality of objects of interest; associating search-based content with the objects of interest; ranking the objects of interest; and outputting the ranked objects with the search-based content into a current email message of the user. | 05-16-2013 |
20130138623 | USER ENTERTAINMENT AND ENGAGEMENT ENHANCEMENTS TO SEARCH SYSTEM - According to one aspect of the present invention, a method of actively engaging a user of a search system can include receiving from the user a search query for a search of a corpus of information and providing the user with search results for the search. The user can also be prompted to participate in a search-related activity wherein at least one aspect of the search-related activity is dependent on a context of the search. User input for performing the search-related activity can be accepted and an activity response can be provided to the user. | 05-30-2013 |
20130297402 | CONTEXTUAL APPLICATION TRACKING - System and method for trackable applications including an application providing unit, a controller, and an incentive tracker. The application providing unit is adapted to send a trackable application upon request. The controller is adapted to receive interactions from the trackable application. The incentive tracker is adapted to select an incentive based on the interaction data. The controller is further adapted to send the selected incentive to the trackable application. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297720 | CONTEXTUAL APPLICATION DELIVERY - System and method for delivering context aware applications including a content analyzer, a context aware application, a recommendation component, and a controller. The content analyzer is adapted to determine topics in content requested by a user. The context aware application repository contains one or more context aware applications. The recommendation component is adapted to select a context aware application from among the one or more context aware applications based on the determined topics. The controller is adapted to receive the request for a context aware application including information regarding the requested content and is adapted to send the selected context aware application to the requester of the selected context aware application. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297721 | CONTEXTUAL APPLICATION CUSTOMIZATION - System and method for delivering context customized applications comprising a content analyzer, an application customizer, and a controller adapted. The content analyzer is adapted to determine topics in content requested by a user. The application customizer is adapted to customize an application based on the determined topics, to form a context customized application. The controller is adapted to receive the request for the context customized application including information regarding the requested content, and is adapted to send the context customized application to the requester of the context customized application. | 11-07-2013 |
20140324814 | USER INTERFACES FOR SEARCH SYSTEMS USING IN-LINE CONTEXTUAL QUERIES - Systems and methods, including user interfaces, are provided for implementing searches using contextual information associated with a Web page (or other document) that a user is viewing when a query is entered. The page includes a contextual search interface that has an associated context vector representing content of the page. When the user submits a search query via the contextual search interface, the query and the context vector are both provided to the query processor and used in responding to the query. | 10-30-2014 |