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20080208796 | Method and system for providing sponsored information on electronic devices - A system implementing a method for providing sponsored information on an electronic device determines information of interest to the user as relevant information, accesses sponsored information, and provides sponsored information based on said relevant information. | 08-28-2008 |
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20090112848 | Method and system for suggesting search queries on electronic devices - A method and system implementing a process for suggesting search queries on an electronic device is provided. The process involves displaying terms related to content accessed by a user for selection by the user, obtaining one or more key terms related to a user-selected term, and displaying the one or more key terms to the user as query suggestions corresponding to the selected term. Obtaining one or more key terms involves obtaining one or more key terms related to the selected term, based on local content information and/or external content information. | 04-30-2009 |
20090158161 | COLLABORATIVE SEARCH IN VIRTUAL WORLDS - In a first embodiment, first information regarding an object in a virtual world is received from a virtual world client. The first information is stored in a database. Second information regarding the object is received from a second virtual world client. The second information is then also stored in the database. In a second embodiment, a request is received from a virtual world client. Then a database is searched based on the request and based on tags corresponding to virtual world objects, wherein the tags are stored in the database, wherein the searching returns one or more tagged virtual world objects. Then the one or more tagged virtual world objects are sent to the virtual world client. | 06-18-2009 |
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20080235209 | Method and apparatus for search result snippet analysis for query expansion and result filtering - The present invention provides a method and system that enable search result snippet analysis for query expansion and result filtering. Further, a technique for post processing search result snippets is provided to suggest topics for further search and extracting terms related to the search topic for later use. | 09-25-2008 |
20080235393 | Framework for corrrelating content on a local network with information on an external network - A correlation system and method implement a framework for correlating content available from a local network with information on an external network. The system identifies information related to content available on the local network of interest to the user and also identifies one or more external sources that contain such related information. Then the system extracts data related to the identified information from the external sources, and determines correlations between the identified information and the data extracted from the external network. | 09-25-2008 |
20080250010 | Method and system for determining and pre-processing potential user queries related to content in a network - A framework identifies data that a user would likely be interested to access, then extracts and stores such data for the user to efficiently use when desired. Thereby, the framework allows the user to access several types of information efficiently, without the user having to request the information. | 10-09-2008 |
20080266449 | Method and system for providing access to information of potential interest to a user - The present invention provides a method and system for providing access to information of potential interest to a user. Closed-caption information is analyzed to find related information on the Internet. User interactions with a TV which receives programming including closed-caption information are monitored to determine user interests. The related closed-caption information is analyzed to determine key information therein. The key information is used for searching for information in available resources such as the Internet, and the search results are used to make recommendations to the user about information of potential interest to the user. | 10-30-2008 |
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20110145360 | WEB APPLICATION SCRIPT MIGRATION - In a first embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided comprising: determining if a portion of a script of web application code within a web application is migratable to a remote infrastructure, wherein the portion of the script contains one or more functions; and modifying the portion of the script if the portion of the script is migratable, such that execution of the portion of the script results in the one or more functions being executed on the remote infrastructure, wherein the remote infrastructure is not restricted to the device on which the web application was designed or distributed. | 06-16-2011 |
20120222059 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION USING A SUPPLEMENTARY DEVICE - A method and system for providing access to information via a supplementary device is provided. User access to primary information via a primary device is monitored. Key information related to the primary content is obtained by extracting and analyzing metadata sources for the primary information. Then, supplementary information related to the primary information is obtained based on the key information. The supplementary information is provided for user access via the supplementary device. | 08-30-2012 |
20120246172 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING INFORMATION SEARCHING ON ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A method and system for facilitating information searching for a user of an electronic device is provided. Facilitating searches involves obtaining information about the user interests, identifying potential data of interest to the user, extracting data related to said data of interest to the user, and collecting the extracted related data for presentation to the user on the device. | 09-27-2012 |