Patents Assigned to Wajam Internet Technologies Inc.
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Patent number: 8620898Abstract: The present document describes a method for presenting modified information obtained from the internet on an application on a mobile device. The mobile device is set to communicate with the internet through a proxy server. A user of the mobile device is registered on a social network from which indexed search content specific to the user's connections on the social network are obtained. The method comprises: modifying, based on the indexed search content specific to the user's connections, an output for the application from an internet server to produce a modified output for the application; and sending the modified output for the application to the mobile device for presentation in the application on the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2012Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Wajam Internet Technologies Inc.Inventors: Martin-Luc Archambault, André-Philippe Paquet, Heikki Koivikko
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Patent number: 8498979Abstract: There is described a method implemented on a social search server for presenting names of members of a social network who shared information about a commercial item to a user performing a search from a user interface of a user device. The user is registered on the social network and has connections thereon. The method comprises: indexing data representative of activities of the members on the social network; extracting commercial items from the indexed activity data; receiving a search query along with a user identifier; identifying a commercial item within the search query; using the search query and the user identifier, performing a search on the extracted commercial items specific to the user's connections to obtain names of members who shared information about the commercial item; and returning the names of the members who shared information about the commercial item to the user device.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2012Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Wajam Internet Technologies Inc.Inventors: Martin-Luc Archambault, André-Philippe Paquet
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Publication number: 20130179428Abstract: There is described a method and system for obtaining ranked search results including names of experts who are members of a social network and presenting the ranked search results to a user performing a search from a user interface of a user device. The user is registered on the social network and has connections thereon. The method comprises: indexing data representative of activities of the members on the social network to produce indexed activity data; receiving a search query relative to a subject along with a user identifier from the user device; using the search query and the user identifier, ranking members from the user's connections based on their activities on the social network related to the subject to obtain ranked experts for the subject; returning the names of ranked experts for the subject to the user device for presentation on the user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: Wajam Internet Technologies Inc.Inventors: Martin-Luc Archambault, André-Philippe Paquet
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Publication number: 20130179429Abstract: There is described a method implemented on a social search server for presenting names of members of a social network who shared information about a commercial item to a user performing a search from a user interface of a user device. The user is registered on the social network and has connections thereon. The method comprises: indexing data representative of activities of the members on the social network; extracting commercial items from the indexed activity data; receiving a search query along with a user identifier; identifying a commercial item within the search query; using the search query and the user identifier, performing a search on the extracted commercial items specific to the user's connections to obtain names of members who shared information about the commercial item; and returning the names of the members who shared information about the commercial item to the user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: Wajam Internet Technologies inc.Inventors: Martin-Luc Archambault, André-Philippe Paquet
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Publication number: 20130179427Abstract: There is disclosed a method and system for presenting indexed search results from a social network, concurrently with customary search results returned by a search engine hosted on a website, to a user performing a search from a user interface of a user device using the search engine. The user is registered on the social network and has connections thereon. The method comprises: indexing data related to users registered on the social network to produce indexed data, the data obtained from the social network hosted on a website different from the website hosting the search engine; receiving a search query along with a user identifier; performing a search on the indexed data specific to the user's connections to obtain indexed search results specific to the user's connections on the social network; and returning to the user device the indexed search results for presentation on the user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: Wajam Internet Technologies Inc.Inventors: Martin-Luc Archambault, Sebastien Giroux, André-Philippe Paquet
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Publication number: 20130179430Abstract: The present document describes a method for presenting modified information obtained from the internet on an application on a mobile device. The mobile device is set to communicate with the internet through a proxy server. A user of the mobile device is registered on a social network from which indexed search content specific to the user's connections on the social network are obtained. The method comprises: modifying, based on the indexed search content specific to the user's connections, an output for the application from an internet server to produce a modified output for the application; and sending the modified output for the application to the mobile device for presentation in the application on the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: Wajam Internet Technologies Inc.Inventors: Martin-Luc Archambault, André-Philippe Paquet, Heikki Koivikko
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Patent number: 8478735Abstract: There is described a method and system for obtaining ranked search results including names of experts who are members of a social network and presenting the ranked search results to a user performing a search from a user interface of a user device. The user is registered on the social network and has connections thereon. The method comprises: indexing data representative of activities of the members on the social network to produce indexed activity data; receiving a search query relative to a subject along with a user identifier from the user device; using the search query and the user identifier, ranking members from the user's connections based on their activities on the social network related to the subject to obtain ranked experts for the subject; returning the names of ranked experts for the subject to the user device for presentation on the user interface.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2012Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Wajam Internet Technologies Inc.Inventors: Martin-Luc Archambault, André-Philippe Paquet