Patents by Inventor Panayiotis Tsaparas

Panayiotis Tsaparas has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for merging result lists from multiple search engines
    Publication number: 20030041054
    Abstract: This invention includes the step of transmitting a query to a set of search engines. Any result lists returned from these search engines is received, and a subset of entries in each result list is selected. Each entry in this subset is assigned a scoring value according to a scoring function, and each result list is then assigned a representative value according to the scoring values assigned to its entries. A merged list of entries is produced based upon the representative value assigned to each result list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2001
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Inventors: Jianchang Mao, Rajat Mukherjee, Prabhakar Raghavan, Panayiotis Tsaparas