Patents Assigned to Exponential Labs Inc.
  • Restricted web search based on user-specified source characteristics
    Patent number: 8868579
    Abstract: The present invention is a method and system for searching for items on a computer network, such as the internet, based on a query and an exclusion specification comprising a specification of a characteristic of sources of the items, to create a list of identifiers of items relevant to the query that are not excluded by the exclusion specification. Such characteristics include measures of popularity of the sources of the items so that items from sources having popularity greater than the specified popularity may be excluded from the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Exponential Labs Inc.
    Inventor: Sanjay Arora