Analyzing Or Parsing Query To Determine Topic Or Category Patents (Class 707/708)
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Patent number: 9053181Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing a personalized entertainment experience, which may be customized for each user. A user's playback/presentation history and/or user actions may be captured and associated with each played/presented composition. A target time for playback/presentation of a composition to the user may be determined by using a user's playback/presentation history and/or user actions. A customized sequence of compositions may be automatically generated for each user. The personalized sequence may automatically adapt to changing user actions and preferences over time. In one embodiment, a target time for playback or presentation of a composition to a user, is at least partially based on: a count of playbacks or presentations of the composition to a user, and a time when the composition was previously played or presented to the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Inventor: James W. Wieder
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Publication number: 20150149432Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for searching financial data. For example, a device for searching transaction information is disclosed. The device may include interface hardware for receiving and providing information and a memory device for storing instructions. The device may also include one or more hardware processors configured to execute the instructions to receive a user request for information associated with one or more transactions in the form of a search query, transmit the search query to a transaction search engine for identification of one or more concepts from the search query, and receive, from the transaction search engine, responsive transaction data determined based on the one or more concepts identified from the search query. The one or more hardware processors may be further configured to determine a result that satisfies the user request based on the responsive transaction data, and provide the result via the interface hardware.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2014Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicant: CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATIONInventors: Colin Hart, Mohamed Lafeer, Sarah Calandro, Jeremy Rephlo, Scott Totman
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Patent number: 9043919Abstract: A crawler program collects and stores application programs including application binaries and associated metadata from any number of sources such as official application marketplaces and alternative application marketplaces. An analysis including comparisons and correlations are performed among the collected data in order to detect and warn users about pirated or maliciously modified applications.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2012Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: LOOKOUT, INC.Inventors: Timothy M. Wyatt, Tim Strazzere, Kevin Patrick Mahaffey, Yogesh Swami
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Patent number: 9037594Abstract: Methods, systems, and techniques for keyword management are described. Some embodiments provide a keyword management system (“KMS”) configured to determine the effectiveness of multiple candidate keywords. In some embodiments, the KMS generates multiple candidate keywords based on an initial keyword. The KMS may then determine an effectiveness score for each of the candidate keywords, based on marketing information about those keywords. Next, the KMS may process the candidate keywords according to the determined effectiveness scores. In some embodiments, processing the candidate keywords includes applying rules that conditionally perform actions with respect to the candidate keywords, such as modifying advertising expenditures, modifying content, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2011Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Marketo, Inc.Inventors: Anthony Joseph, Adam Goldblatt
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Patent number: 9031929Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining a first count of unique queries, received by a search engine, that are categorized as referring to a particular site; determining a second count of unique queries, received by the search engine, that are associated with the particular site, wherein a query is associated with the particular site when the query is followed by a user selection of a search result that (a) was presented, by the search engine, in response to the query and (b) identifies a resource in the particular site; and determining, based on the first and second counts, a site quality score for the particular site.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2012Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: April R. Lehman, Navneet Panda
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Patent number: 9031926Abstract: A system for indexing unstructured or semi-structured data is disclosed. The system may identify regions within the data, such as “Abstract” or “References”. The system may identify linguistic units such as sentences, noun groups, verb groups. The system may also identify concepts such as companies, people, diseases, amounts, and so forth. The query results may be formatted so that similar results from different documents, or from the same document, are clustered together.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2012Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Linguamatics Ltd.Inventors: David R. Milward, James R. Thomas, Sylvia F. Knight, Roger W. Hale
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Patent number: 9026428Abstract: A system and method for receiving character input from a user includes a programmed processor that receives inputs from the user and disambiguates the inputs to present character sequence choices corresponding to the input characters. In one embodiment, a first character input is received and a corresponding first recognized character is stored in a temporary storage buffer and displayed to the user for editing. After a predetermined number of subsequent input characters and/or predetermined amount of time without being edited, the system determines that the first recognized character is the intended character input by the user and removes the first recognized character from the buffer, thereby inhibiting future editing.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2012Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Jakob Sternby, Lars Jonas Morwing, Jonas Andersson, Christer Friberg
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Patent number: 9020926Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for refining search queries. In one implementation, a method includes obtaining a submitted search query, and in response to obtaining the search query: obtaining search results responsive to the search query; selecting a document from a group of documents identified by the search results; generating from a subset of one or more entities associated with the document one or more candidates for refined search queries, including: identifying one or more terms in the search query, where the one or more terms occur in the search query in a particular order relative to each other, and combining the one or more terms with the entity to generate a candidate, where the one or more terms occur in the particular order relative to each other; and identifying one or more of the candidates as being refined search queries for providing with the search results.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2013Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Ori Allon, Ugo Di Girolamo, Tomer Shmiel, Alexandre Petcherski, Tzvika Hartman
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Patent number: 9021416Abstract: A code evaluation tool greatly reduces time, cost, and other resource expenditures needed to validate that an application implements desired functionality. The tool is a search, navigation and visualization tool that accepts high-level processing concepts as inputs to identify, rank, and return the code of a recommended application. A software developer may use the tool to validate that functional requirements are met by the recommended application. The tool provides an efficient way to improve the evaluation of application logic to validate that the application meets specified functional requirement and implements the desired high-level processing concepts.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2008Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Accenture Global Service LimitedInventors: Mark Grechanik, Qing Xie, Chen Fu
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Patent number: 9020935Abstract: Standard word lists that are often used for such operations as predictive text, spell checking, and word completion are based on general linguistic data that might not accurately reflect actual text usage patterns of particular users. Systems and methods of building and using a custom word list for use in text operations on an electronic device are provided. A collection of text items associated with a user of the electronic device is scanned to identify words in the text items. A weighting is then assigned to each identified word, and the words and corresponding weightings are stored.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2014Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Robert J. Lowles, Jason T. Griffin, Michael S. Brown
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Patent number: 9020922Abstract: A method for optimizing search results for an entity includes determining a grouping for actions related to an entity. The grouping may include a plurality of terms. The method may also include searching a network for the terms associated with the grouping. Thereafter, results of the searches may be analyzed to determine a rank for the entity within the results.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2010Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Brightedge Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jimmy Yu, Sammy Yu, Lemuel S. Park, Rolland Yip
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Patent number: 9015168Abstract: A device for generating opinion pairs having sentiment orientation based impact relations, having: a reception unit which receives a plurality of object-oriented opinions; an extraction unit which extracts opinions having impact relations among the plurality of object-oriented opinions; an analysis unit which analyzes sentiment orientations of the extracted respective opinions; and a generation unit which establishes correlations between the opinions having sentiment orientation based impact relations to generate the opinion pairs having the sentiment orientation based impact relations. The present device can search and locate more implicit opinions as supplementary opinions by detecting impact relations from a plurality of opinions, and help users interested in different objects obtain more comprehensive comments and summaries.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2011Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Keke Cai, Rui Ma, Zhong Su, Xiao Xun Zhang, Hui Jia Zhu
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Patent number: 9015031Abstract: In an automated Question Answer (QA) system architecture for automatic open-domain Question Answering, a system, method and computer program product for predicting the Lexical Answer Type (LAT) of a question. The approach is completely unsupervised and is based on a large-scale lexical knowledge base automatically extracted from a Web corpus. This approach for predicting the LAT can be implemented as a specific subtask of a QA process, and/or used for general purpose knowledge acquisition tasks such as frame induction from text.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2012Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David A. Ferrucci, Alfio M. Gliozzo, Aditya A. Kalyanpur
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Patent number: 9009134Abstract: Named Entity Recognition in Query (NERQ) involves detection of a named entity in a given query and classification of the named entity into one or more predefined classes. The predefined classes may be based on a predefined taxonomy. A probabilistic approach may be taken to detecting and classifying named entities in queries, the approach using either query log data or click through data and Weakly Supervised Latent Dirichlet Allocation (WS-LDA) to construct and train a topic model.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2010Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Gu Xu, Hang Li, Jiafeng Guo
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Patent number: 9009133Abstract: Methods and systems for formulating and executing concept-structured queries of unorganized data are described. One described method for searching an unstructured data set includes receiving at least one user specified category whose definition is unconstrained, receiving at least one user specified token associated with the at least one category, generating a boolean query associated with the at least one token and the at least one category, executing the boolean query against an unstructured data set to identify at least one article identifier associated with an article, and creating a result set comprising the at least one article identifier.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2006Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Leidos, Inc.Inventor: William Christopher Hardy
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Patent number: 9009130Abstract: An affinity server estimates an affinity between two different time based media events (e.g., TV, radio, social media content stream), between a time based media event and a specific topic, or between two different topics, where the affinity score represents an intersection between the populations of social media users who have authored social media content items regarding the two different events and/or topics. The affinity score represents an estimation of the real world affinity between the real world population of people who have an interest in both time based media events, both topics, or in a time based media event and a topic. One possible threshold for including a social media user in a population may be based on a confidence score that indicates the confidence that one or more social media content items authored by the social media user are relevant to the topic or event in question.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Bluefin Labs, Inc.Inventors: Michael Ben Fleischman, Deb Kumar Roy, Jeremy Rishel, Anjali Midha, Matthew Miller
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Patent number: 9002702Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for automatically assigning a confidence level to information extracted from a transcription of a voice recording. Specifically, in a typical embodiment, an axiom is extracted from a source associated with the text of the transcription. A confidence level of the source is determined. A confidence level is assigned to the axiom based on the confidence level of the source.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2012Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: James E. Bostick, John M. Ganci, Jr., John P. Kaemmerer, Craig M. Trim
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Patent number: 8996498Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system for providing advanced downloading of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) for a WEB browser running on a computer. The system is capable of providing a WEB browser with Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). The system comprises a client computer and a server. The client computer includes the WEB browser for use by a user and includes a URL component. The server provides WEB data to the client computer. The server includes a URL downloader, which is responsive to the URL component for downloading the URLs to the client computer.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Derek Kwan
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Patent number: 8996358Abstract: Determining variants of a text entity comprises parsing the text entity into semantic components and generating variants for each of the semantic components. The entity is recomposed in different morphological forms from the different variants of the semantic components.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Adriano Crestani Campos, Yunyao Li, Sriram Raghavan, Huaiyu Zhu
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Patent number: 8996582Abstract: Performing a user initiated search query is disclosed and comprises receiving user input comprising description details of at least one desired object, retrieving a plurality of objects from a database sharing one or more of the description details of the user input, constructing a tree data structure based on the description details of the plurality of objects, the tree data structure comprising one or more attributes related to each of the plurality of objects retrieved, displaying visual images associated with the retrieved plurality of objects, the visual images matching at least one of the attributes related to the plurality of objects, and receiving a user selection of one or more of the visual images.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLCInventors: Farid Khafizov, Margarita Khafizova
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Patent number: 8996515Abstract: Two methods for measuring keyword-document relevance are described. The methods receive a keyword and a document as input and output a probability value for the keyword. The first method is a similarity-based approach which uses techniques for measuring similarity between two short-text segments to measure relevance between the keyword and the document. The second method is a regression-based approach based on an assumption that if an out-of-document phrase (the keyword) is semantically similar to an in-document phrase, then relevance scores of the in and out-of document phrases should be close to each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Wen-tau Yih, Christopher A. Meek
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Publication number: 20150088851Abstract: In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing analytics on-demand functionality.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventors: Suyog Anil Deshpande, Keith D. Bigelow
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Publication number: 20150088852Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and articles for receiving a search request associated with a transportation service from a client device, the search request including a plurality of search criteria, are described herein. Additionally, the methods, apparatuses, and articles further return to the client device an answer page having a plurality of answers potentially associated with the transportation service, the plurality of answers identifying a plurality of information locations having information potentially associated with at least a one of the plurality of search criteria, where at least one of the answers includes at least one input field of a query answer page for entry of at least one feature of the transportation service, the query answer page to be dynamically generated by one of the information locations in response to a query.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventor: Michael Z. Moricz
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Patent number: 8990244Abstract: A system and method of sensing and responding to service discoveries on a consumer's machine and, more particularly, to a system and method of sensing (discovering) service needs on a consumer's machine using a resident Daemon, and responding to the service discoveries using an extension of UDDI. The method comprises receiving a keyword from a local machine, locating a service associated with the keyword, and notifying the local machine about the service that matches the keyword.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2013Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Zhendong Bao, William P. Shaouy
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Patent number: 8990194Abstract: Methods, and systems, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable storage mediums, including a method for adjusting content delivery based on user submissions. The method includes analyzing user submissions comprising photographs, the analyzing comprising: for each of the user submissions: identifying a time the user submission occurred; identifying objects represented in the photograph; determining a subject matter of the user submission based at least in part on the objects; determining a geographic location associated with the subject matter of the user submission; determining clusters of the user submissions, each user submission in a particular cluster being similar to each other user submission in the particular cluster based on the times the user submissions occurred, the subject matters of the user submissions, and the geographic locations associated with the user submissions; and adjusting content delivery to members of a network based on the determination of one or more of the clusters.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Frances B. Haugen, Gregory M. Marra
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Patent number: 8990347Abstract: When a one or more identifiers and a plurality of data request types is received, a first data request from the one or more identifiers and from a first data request type can be generated and performed. When at least one first result from the first data request can be received, a second data request from the one or more identifiers and from a second data request type can be generated and performed at any time after receiving the one or more identifiers and the plurality of data request types, and then the at least one second result from the second data request can be retrieved either one of a before, during, and after the at least one first result from the first data request is presented. The correspondence between identifiers and request types may be one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, or many-to-many relationship. A response type may employ a plurality of response methods to access multiple network resources corresponding to any generated and/or selected identifiers and/or request types.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2004Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: ESDR Network Solutions LLCInventor: Eric Schneider
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Patent number: 8988450Abstract: Effective color-aware search of a collection of content associated with one or more images is enabled. Content and/or its associated images may be automatically associated with representative palette colors in a suite of color palettes. Color palettes may be of a variety of types and have a hierarchical structure in which lower levels enable increasingly subtle distinctions between shades of color. Color palette hierarchies may be effectively presented, and appropriate portions emphasized based on associated search result sets. Search result sets may be refined and/or reordered in accordance with color palette selections and/or representative confidences of color palette selections for items at least referenced therein.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2013Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Max L. Kanter, Sachin B. Singh, Michel Goldstein, Carl N. Meister, David Charles Couvrette, Walter Manching Tseng, Blair L. Hotchkies, Sarah E. Williams, Sikander Saifullah, Sean P. Forde, John M. Nilles, Jason P. Patrikios, Brent Robert Mills, Alexandru I. Indrei, Paul Daniel Jaye, Daniel R. Parshall
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Publication number: 20150081663Abstract: A method and system for generating customized user content, wherein user content is a product of an active search environment. Under the active search environment, a computing device may log, record and store all information on the computing device's interactions with the user. The computing device may utilize the stored information to actively search and present additional content to the user that the user may enjoy. The computing device may further predict content that may appeal to the user or retrieve additional or related content the user might have searched for in the future, streamlining the user's interaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: First Principles, Inc.Inventor: Keith A. Raniere
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Patent number: 8972373Abstract: A querying system in a computer apparatus may be customized by connection of a removable storage medium device to a storage medium interface of the computer apparatus. The computer apparatus detects whether, in the storage medium thereof, there is stored customisation data that indicates a change to the query engine data identifying locations where query messages are sent. If so, the query engine data in the computer apparatus is changed accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2011Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Sony Europe LimitedInventors: Pieter Coenen, Stefan Lodeweyckx, Pascal Piquepe, Francis Van Aeken
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Patent number: 8965872Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-storage media are provided for identifying low-match search queries and determining comparable item matches to suggest to the user in response to a low-match query. “Low-match queries” are queries for which an insufficient number of exact item matches are available. In embodiments, exact and/or comparable item matches may be determined via semantic analysis. Also provided are systems, methods and computer-storage media for informing the user, by way of a presented indicator, or the like, that a presented item was selected for presentation based upon a similarity metric rather than being determined an exact match for the input query.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Bo-June Hsu, Kuansan Wang, Yu-Ting Kuo, Chao-Chia Liu, Heung-Yeung Shum
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Patent number: 8965875Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for removing substitution rules. According to one implementation, a method includes identifying a plurality of revised search queries associated with a substitution rule, wherein the substitution rule is used to generate the revised search queries from each of a plurality of original search queries to include a substitute query term for an original query term included in the original search queries; for each of the revised search queries, accessing query log data that identifies (i) a set of search results generated by the respective revised search query, and (ii) a particular, user-selected search result in the set of search results; determining a quality metric for the substitution rule using the query log data; determining that the quality metric does not satisfy a threshold; and in response to determining that the quality metric does not satisfy the threshold, removing the substitution rule.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2012Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: Dan Popovici
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Patent number: 8965865Abstract: A method is provided for identifying documents that include a searchable form relevant to a topic. A document is received. If the received document comprises a form is determined. A form includes a field presented to a user requesting information from the user. If the received document is determined to comprise a form, a determination is made concerning whether or not the form is a searchable form. A searchable form returns non-trivial information to a requester in response to a submission of the form. If the form is determined to be a searchable form, a determination is made concerning whether or not the form is relevant to an identified topic. If the form is determined to be relevant to the identified topic, the document is identified as a searchable form relevant to the identified topic.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2008Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: The University of Utah Research FoundationInventors: Juliana Freire, Luciano Barbosa
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Patent number: 8959076Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for managing a plurality of services in a service catalog. Metadata is received about one or more services. The metadata is analyzed to determine whether to perform a management activity on the service catalog, the management activity including recommending one or more services in the service catalog or coupling two or more services in the service catalog. If it is determined that the received metadata is insufficient, a signal is generated to gather additional metadata within a time period the metadata is determined to be insufficient.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2012Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lorraine M. Herger, Neal M. Keller, Matthew A. McCarthy, Clifford A. Pickover
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Patent number: 8959111Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing answer box functionality to a third party search engine. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by a search engine, a search query, generating one or more search results that are responsive to the search query, generating an answer box request based on the search query, transmitting the answer box request to another search engine, receiving, in response to the answer box request, an answer box result from the other search engine, generating a search engine results page that includes one or more of the search results, and that includes an answer box that references information included in the answer box result, and providing the search engine results page.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2012Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: Xin Zhou
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Publication number: 20150046423Abstract: Systems and methods for refining search query results are provided. A first user input is received. A plurality of search categories for the first input are determined. The plurality of search categories are then associated with different segments of a first slider. The first slider allows a user to generate a search query for the first user input among the plurality of associated categories. The search query returns a set of search query results. A plurality of sub categories may be determined for each search category. The plurality of sub-categories are associated with different segments of a second slider. Movement of a slider button of a second slider to a first segment of the second slider may be detected. The search query results may be filtered based on the first segment of the second slider. The filtering adjusts a level of detail of the set of search query results.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: TD Ameritrade IP Company, Inc.Inventor: Andrew WEEKS
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Publication number: 20150046424Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and systems for searching software applications, including mobile applications (apps) and web apps/extensions/plug-ins (applications). The method comprises the steps of; executing at least one app or application, collection application data from the app or application, storing the collected application data, receiving a query, searching the stored application data, and transmitting information regarding apps or applications whose corresponding stored application is relevant to the query.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Inventors: Hsiu-Ping Lin, Chi-Jen Wu
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Publication number: 20150046425Abstract: A method for searching for software applications (or apps) is provided. In the method, one or more software applications are scheduled for execution according to a scheduling policy. The software applications are executed according to the scheduling policy. Application data of the software applications is collected. The collected application data is stored. A query is received. The stored application data is searched. Information regarding software applications whose corresponding stored application data relevant to the query is transmitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Inventors: Hsiu-Ping Lin, Chi-Jen Wu
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Patent number: 8949215Abstract: An exemplary computer implemented graphics-based Web search system includes a search input control and a results presentation control where the search input control is configured to receive user input to establish a relationship between a query and one or more information tags associated with search results provided by a search engine in response to the query and wherein the results presentation control is configured to re-order the search results in response to the relationship. Such a system allows a user to define and refine search intent and enhance the user's search experience. Various other exemplary systems, methods, devices, etc. are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2008Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Min Wang, Zheng Chen, Jian-Tao Sun, Shen Huang, Jian Wang
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Patent number: 8949327Abstract: In embodiments of the disclosed technology, a plurality of ratings of, for example, websites is received, wherein each rating is associated with a category and a rater, and each rater is associated with at least one group. A selection of a category is received from the user, wherein the user is associated with at least one group. One website location, or a plurality of website locations, is provided in the category to the user, based on at least one rating of the plurality of ratings provided by at least one of the raters, wherein at least one group associated with the rater and at least one group associated with the user are the same group.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2008Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Balachander Krishnamurthy, Ramon Caceres
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Patent number: 8949223Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for providing translated web content is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request from a user on a web site, the web site having a first web content in a first language, wherein the request calls for a second web content in a second language. The method further includes dividing the first web content into a plurality of translatable components and generating a unique identifier for each translatable component. The method further includes identifying a plurality of translated components of the second web content using the unique identifier of each of the plurality of translatable components of the first web content and putting the plurality of translated components of the second web content to preserve a format that corresponds to the first web content. The method further includes providing the second web content in response to the request that was received.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2013Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Motionpoint CorporationInventors: Enrique Travieso, Adam Rubenstein
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Patent number: 8949387Abstract: Provided is a method for best practices analysis of zones and components in a network. A database has information on components in the network and configuration settings for the components. Best practices rules indicate best practices configuration settings for components in the network. The database and the accessed best practices rules are processed to determine whether the configuration settings for the components in the network satisfy the best practices configuration settings for the components indicated in the best practices rules. A report is generated indicating whether the configuration settings of the components in the network satisfy the best practices configuration settings for the components indicated in the best practices rules.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2013Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Louie A. Dickens, Olive P. Faries, Laurence W. Holley, Sheri L. Jackson
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Patent number: 8949147Abstract: Methods and systems for the efficient tracking of a product or service within the product or service's life cycle within a supply chain. Implementations of the present invention including at least one of a method, a process, a system, an apparatus, a computer-readable medium, and a data stream. The methods and systems of the present invention providing a user with the capability to track an item or order, shipment status, or to check an inventory quantity utilizing any one of a plurality of identification numbers. The methods and systems of the present invention also providing the user with the capability to track an item or order, shipment status, or to check an inventory quantity utilizing a partial identification number. The methods and systems of the present invention further providing for secure access via a globally-distributed computer network, such as the Internet. A graphical user interface is provided that is intuitive and user friendly.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2002Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: New Breed, Inc.Inventor: Ashfaque Chowdhury
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Patent number: 8949214Abstract: Delivering a page that includes a plurality of modules is disclosed. A query is received. Subject type concepts associated with the query are determined. Candidate modules that correspond to the associated concepts are found. A plurality of modules is selected from the candidate modules to be delivered on a page.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2008Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.Inventors: Mehul Shah, Abhishek Gattani, Anand Rajaraman, Sri Subramaniam
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Publication number: 20150032597Abstract: Technology is disclosed for an online exchange for personal data. In various embodiments, the technology receives data (e.g., geographic location data and/or personal data); determines whether the first user is to be compensated based at least on the received data; and if the first user is to be compensated, provides a compensation to the first user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2014Publication date: January 29, 2015Inventors: Cameron Percy, Penelope Percy, Roger Percy, James Baker
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Patent number: 8943091Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for performing a string search. In use, a first string and a second string are identified. Additionally, a string search is performed, utilizing the first string and the second string.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2012Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: NVIDIA CorporationInventors: Jacopo Pantaleoni, David Tarjan
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Publication number: 20150026151Abstract: A trigger query obtaining apparatus includes a graph creating unit, a score calculation unit, a trigger query obtaining unit, and an output unit. The graph creating unit creates a minimal directed graph having nodes each corresponding to a search query included in one of two search logs, and a link directed from one node to another node. The score calculation unit calculates a score for each node of a directed graph composed of minimal directed graphs, using a seed query. The trigger query obtaining unit obtains a trigger query that is a search query corresponding to a node having a score that satisfies a condition. The output unit outputs the trigger query.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Inventor: Sumio FUJITA
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Patent number: 8938436Abstract: A system for and method of providing reusable software service information based on natural language queries. The system and method may include receiving, from a user system, query data in a natural language format that indicates a request for a plurality of reusable software service applications that are configured to perform a particular task, processing the query data to generate search criteria that include query values, and searching, a database, for the plurality of reusable software service applications based on the query values.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2010Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: Thomas Kozempel
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Publication number: 20150019523Abstract: An event-based social networking system enables users of the system to create and schedule events, extend and respond to invitations, facilitate creation of albums of media memorializing the events and enabling members of the social network community to control sharing, viewing and commenting on media contained in the albums.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2013Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Adam Lior, Raphael Lior
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Publication number: 20150019524Abstract: A method and device for assigning measurement signal and device designations from a first to a second classification system within a projection of a technical system is provided. The process is implemented in an automated manner by a search engine. A measurement signal or device designation from the first classification system is entered into the search engine and converted into a search query. The text elements of the search query are processed, wherein text elements are semantically analyzed using terminology and compared with those of a list which contains all the designations from the second classification system. The text elements from the list which best match those of the search query are evaluated with respect to relevance and outputted as search results of the search engine. The search result with the maximum relevance corresponds to the designation from the second classification system and replaces designation from the first classification system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: January 15, 2015Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Thorsten Fuhring, Andreas Geiger, Klaus Wendelberger
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Publication number: 20150019525Abstract: Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, comprising the steps of, or structure for, storing a plurality of expert profiles in a database, each of the plurality of expert profiles comprising information associated with a person having knowledge in a particular category, subject or topic; receiving search criteria over a network from a query source; selecting at least one of the plurality of expert profiles comprising information that satisfy the search criteria; and transmitting expert profile data for each of the selected expert profiles to the remote search engine, the expert profile data comprising data that defines a displayable representation of a corresponding expert profile, the expert profile data further comprising data that facilitates a client-initiated, real-time communication session over the network with a person associated with the corresponding expert profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Matan Barak, Julius Schorzman, Nir Holtzman Ninio, Uri Goldstein