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| 20090055481 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED SUBJECT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EMAIL MESSAGES BASED ON EMAIL MESSAGE CONTENT - The present invention discloses an email application that includes a subject evaluation engine, which is able to automatically generate a subject heading suggestion for an email message based upon content contained in the email message. The subject evaluation engine can also compare a pre-existing subject heading of the email message against content contained in the email message. User selectable interface elements can be included in the email application for invoking the suggestion and comparison functions of the subject evaluation engine. Further, the subject evaluation can automatically be initiated before an email message is sent, can be used to notify a user when the message's subject is inconsistent with the message's content, and can suggest one or more replacement subject headings for the current heading. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090106375 | Method and System for Conversation Detection in Email Systems - A method and system are provided for conversation detection in email systems. Multiple email messages are provided and grouped as relating to a conversation. The grouping is carried out by applying a similarity function based on a similarity of the email messages' attributes, the similarity function including a similarity between the email messages' participants and at least one of a similarity between the email messages' subjects or a similarity between the email messages' contents. The similarity function may also include the similarity between the email messages' dates. The similarity function may also include weightings for the contributions of the email messages' attributes. A graphical user interface is provided in an email client which includes means for viewing email messages by conversation. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090222441 | System, Method and Computer Program Product for Performing Unstructured Information Management and Automatic Text Analysis, Including a Search Operator Functioning as a Weighted And (WAND) - Disclosed is a system architecture, components and a searching technique for an Unstructured Information Management System (UIMS). The UIMS may be provided as middleware for the effective management and interchange of unstructured information over a wide array of information sources. The architecture generally includes a search engine, data storage, analysis engines containing pipelined document annotators and various adapters. The searching technique makes use of a two-level searching technique. A search query includes a search operator containing of a plurality of search sub-expressions each having an associated weight value. The search engine returns a document or documents having a weight value sum that exceeds a threshold weight value sum. The search operator is implemented as a Boolean predicate that functions as a Weighted AND (WAND). | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090276457 | Method and System for Maintaining Profiles of Information Channels - A method and system are provided for maintaining profiles of information channels available on the Web, wherein the information channels are accessed via pull-only protocols. The method includes monitoring one or more channels by a channel pull action at a monitoring rate, wherein the monitoring rate is determined for the one or more channels based on the number of update events in a previous time period. The method may optimally include filtering the update events in the time period by a novelty measure, wherein the filtering disregards events that do not include significant novel information. The monitoring rate is adapted based on reinforcement learning applying iterative learning rules over time. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090307209 | TERM-STATISTICS MODIFICATION FOR CATEGORY-BASED SEARCH - An apparatus for searching a document collection is provided. The apparatus includes a memory, which is arranged to store a plurality of documents that are respectively associated with one or more categories and contain terms, a search processor, which is arranged to provide an index of the terms indicating the documents in which the terms appear, to estimate a first statistical distribution of each of at least some of the terms in the index over the documents in the collection, to estimate a second statistical distribution of each of at least some of the categories over the documents in the collection, to accept a query comprising one or more of the terms and a specified category restriction referring to at least one of the categories, to compute a local term distribution, which is indicative of occurrence frequencies of at least one of the terms in the query within the specified category restriction, using the first and second estimated statistical distributions to determine a category-specific score for the at least one of the terms responsively to the local term distribution within the specified category restriction, and to apply the query to the index using the category-specific score so as to return a response, wherein the processor is arranged to construct term histograms of the at least some of the terms in the index, to construct category histograms of the at least some of the categories, and to map the documents in the collection to bins of the histograms, so as to estimate the first and second statistical distributions, and wherein the processor is arranged to determine a category restriction histogram based on the category histogram of the at least one of the categories responsively to the category restriction, and to multiply the category restriction histogram by the term histogram of the at least one of the terms in the query so as to produce a localized term histogram. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090327271 | Information Retrieval with Unified Search Using Multiple Facets - Information retrieval with unified search between heterogeneous objects is described. The method includes: indexing a first object as a document in a search index; referencing a second object related to the first object in a facet of the document; and storing a relationship strength between the first and second objects in the facet of the document in the search index. Multiple heterogeneous objects can be related to the first object and referenced in multiple facets of the document, each with its relationship strength to the first object. Scoring an indirect object by indirect relation to a query object can be carried out by aggregating the relationship strengths between the indirect object and the retrieved objects multiplied by the retrieved objects' direct scores of relationship strength to the query object. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100023583 | Efficient Presentation of Related Messages in a Computer Network-Based Messaging System - Efficient presentation of related messages in a computer network-based messaging system, including a message parser for parsing related messages into sub-messages, a comparator for comparing each sub-message identified by the parser to each sub-message in a set of unique sub-messages previously identified by the parser within any of the related messages, and adding to the set any of the sub-messages identified by the parser that are not members of the set, and a message presenter for marking with a visual indicator each of the related messages that contributes any sub-messages to the set, where the marked messages are visually distinguishable from all other of the related messages that do not contribute any sub-messages to the set. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100036828 | CONTENT ANALYSIS SIMULATOR FOR IMPROVING SITE FINDABILITY IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS - A system and method including a simulator operating in conjunction with a search-engine, for improving document and site findability. Users input their content (pages or sites) and the simulator will analyze the site in terms of structure and content. It will then give the user a ranked list of suggestions about how the user might improve his/her site's findability. The user will then be able to apply some or all of these suggestions, or any other changes, by virtually modifying the site, and then immediately receive feedback both on how the pages look and a sense of the degree of findability improvement. The interactive process allows users to simulate modifications in their site structure and content in order to improve its findability. When the user completes the modifications and is satisfied with the new findability of his site, the user will be able then to replace his/her current site in the repository with the modified one. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100161547 | Personalized Web Feed Views - A system for generation of personalized Web feed views in accordance with pre-defined profile parameters, is presented. The system including a user definition interface for receiving at least one user parameter and sending the parameter to a content provider and a feed view personalization unit operable to receive the user parameter and customize feed content in accordance with the at least one user parameter for displaying to the user. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100281035 | Method and System of Prioritising Operations On Network Objects - A method and system for prioritising operations on network objects are provided. The method includes gathering Web 2.0 available relationship data on the relationships between network entities, wherein network entities are network users and network objects. The relationship data for a network entity is analysed and a first relative score is determined based on the relationship data. For a network object, a second relative score is determined which is a dynamic score based on user interactions with the network object and formed using the first relative scores of network entities interacting with the object. The method then prioritizes an operation on a network object using the second relative score. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100332502 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING NUMERICAL TERMS - A method and system for searching numerical terms are provided. The method includes processing a numerical term to a stem, the stem being in the form of a number, and a distance measurement of the numerical term to the stem, wherein a numerical term is a string of characters identified as a number by a numeric parser, and indexing the numerical term in a search index by the stem for search retrieval. The method includes receiving a query and processing the query to divide it into terms, including a numerical term. The numerical terms of the query are also processed to a stem and a distance measurement and document results are retrieved for the stem from an index. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110106799 | MEASURING WEB SITE SATISFACTION OF INFORMATION NEEDS - A method, system, and computer program product for measuring web site satisfaction of information needs are provided. The method includes: selecting a page for analysis; generating a page profile in the form of a list of keywords representing the page; generating a page traffic profile in the form of lists of keywords representing information needs of users, wherein the page traffic profile is generated from keywords used by users to visit the page; determining the success of users' visits to the page; and analyzing whether a page satisfies users' information needs by applying a distance measure between the keywords of the page profile and the keywords of the page traffic profile and combining the distance measure result with a success rate of the keywords. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110125764 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED QUERY EXPANSION IN FACETED SEARCH - A method and system for improved query expansion in faceted search are provided. The method includes: receiving a search query; expanding the search query to obtain query expansion terms; and receiving a facet selection for the search query. A facet profile is retrieved in the form of collected important terms for the facet; and the query expansion terms are weighted by comparing them to the facet profile. The query expansion terms are re-ranked and the method includes executing the re-weighted query expansion terms whilst filtering for the facet. | 05-26-2011 |
