Relevance Of Document Based On Features In Query Patents (Class 707/728)
  • Patent number: 8572076
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies are described herein for mining location contexts within document text. Through an implementation of the concepts and technologies presented herein, functionality can be provided for location context mining within articles, websites, travelogues, or other such documents. A location context is a concept associated with a specific location. For example, the contexts “beach” and “hula” are associated with Hawaii. Similarly, “glacier” and “polar bear” are contexts associated with Alaska. Location context mining can automatically discover locations and location contexts by mining information from a set of documents. User interfaces to support queries of the mined information are also presented herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Rong Xiao, Jiangming Yang, Lei Zhang, Xingrong Chen
  • Patent number: 8572024
    Abstract: Systems and methods for extracting information from structured documents are provided. The systems and methods relate to selecting a centroid document from a group of structured documents, selecting a subset of the group of structured documents in order to form a cluster of the subset of documents about the centroid document. The selecting the subset is preferably based on the relative similarity between each of the selected subset and the centroid document. Then, systems and methods according to the invention include marking a data element on the centroid document. The systems and elements also include identifying a data element on each of the subset of documents, the data element that corresponds to the marked data element on the centroid document. Finally, data may be extracted from the subset of documents based on the identifying step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: EBay Inc.
    Inventors: Amir Ashkenazi, Oren Glickman, Ariel Yaar
  • Publication number: 20130282493
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards collecting, aggregating and indexing unique and non-unique user data from a plurality of users. The result for a query of this indexed aggregation of user data is provided in a plurality of sub-sets of aggregated user data. Each subset of aggregated user data corresponds to a particular portion of the plurality of users. Also, each of these particular portions of the users is set at least large enough to provide general anonymity for the individual users. User data may be collected by one or more user data suppliers and provided to a user data aggregator. In some embodiments, user data may be collected as unique user data, non-unique user data, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, user data may be aggregated by zip code, expanded zip code, and/or one or more attributes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: BLUE KAI, INC.
    Inventors: Lucian Vlad Lita, Omar Tawakol
  • Publication number: 20130282710
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for presenting semi-structured sets of search results comprising two or more differently-structured subsets of search results. The search results are divided into two or more groups of similarly-structured results. The search results are displayed in their respective groups rather than as a single set. Each group is displayed using a different display structure, in an order determined by a group ranking mechanism. The search results within a group ordered by a result ranking mechanism. Techniques are also disclosed for enhancing a display of similarly structured data by emphasizing highly relevant result fields. The highly relevant result fields may be identified based on metadata ranking mechanisms, uniqueness of their constituent values, historical feedback, keyword location, and/or other mechanisms. The fields are emphasized using, without limitation, highlighting, reordering, and filtering of unemphasized fields from the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Nikhil Raghavan, Ravi Murthy, Aman Naimat
  • Publication number: 20130282709
    Abstract: Method, system, and programs for context-based query suggestion are disclosed. A user input is received first. The user input is associated with a request for query suggestion and a page identifier for identifying a page on which a user is browsing. A plurality of page aboutnesses of the page are then fetched from a database based on the received page identifier. A plurality of query suggestions are determined based on the fetched plurality of page aboutnesses. The determined plurality of query suggestions are provided to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: YAHOO! INC.
    Inventors: Shenhong Zhu, Ethan Batraski, Hang Su, Hui Wu
  • Patent number: 8566425
    Abstract: A server may scan an entity's or business' web page to identify information linking to one or more social networking web sites associated with the entity. The server may receive a request from a client device for information about the entity, specifically, a request to view an entity's place page. A place page may provide various types of information to users, for example, by displaying information about the particular entity such as user reviews, contact information, etc. In response to the request, the server may include the entity's social networking web site with the place page information provided to the client device. The server may also access the identified social networking web site in order to identify content such as coupons or other offers recently provided by the entity on the web site. This identified content may also be included in the place page provided to the requesting client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Manjunath Srinivasaiah
  • Publication number: 20130275424
    Abstract: Search systems and methods for searching structured data and enhancing the relevancy of search results provided to a requesting user or application. Enhanced search results are provided by searching a cache of a user's most recently used items to eliminate or reduce search indexing latency. Also, more relevant search results are provided by re-ranking results based on use history, data security models and/or hierarchical user role models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc
    Inventor: salesforce.com, inc
  • Publication number: 20130275422
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing search result page previews. In one aspect, a method includes receiving data that specify a set of search results responsive to a search query. Query-relevant content is selected to be included in a page preview for at least one of the search results. In turn, data that cause presentation of the page preview are provided. The data provided can cause presentation of the query-relevant content at an initial zoom level and at a higher zoom level, where the initial zoom level is a zoom level at which both the query-relevant content and other content from the resource are presented. The page preview can include a page tear that defines multiple portions of the page preview for a resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Silber, Doantam Phan, Christopher H. Rohrs, Xiaofeng Mi
  • Publication number: 20130275423
    Abstract: Some embodiments of on-the-fly pattern recognition with configurable bounds have been presented. In one embodiment, a pattern matching engine is configured based on user input, which may include values of one or more user configurable bounds on searching. Then the configured pattern matching engine is used to search for a set of features in an incoming string. A set of scores is updated based on the presence of any of the features in the string while searching for the features. Each score may indicate a likelihood of the content of the string being in a category. The search is terminated if the end of the string is reached or if the user configurable bounds are met. After terminating the search, the scores are output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Thomas E. Raffill, Shunhui Zhu, Roman Yanovsky, Boris Yanovsky, John Gmuender
  • Publication number: 20130275405
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented using one or more computing devices to facilitate or otherwise support one or more processes or operations in connection with performing information searches, such as, for example, domain-specific on-line searches using social survey-type queries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Farzin Maghoul, Shiv Ramamurthi
  • Patent number: 8560534
    Abstract: A tag database storing tags indexing captured object can be searched efficiently. In one embodiment, such a search begins by receiving a query for one or more objects captured by a capture system, and determining whether a query time range exceeds a time range of a set of fast tables. In one embodiment, the invention further includes searching the set of fast tables if the query time range does not exceed the time range of the fast tables, the set of fast tables containing tags having meta-data related to captured objects. In one embodiment, the invention further includes searching a set of hourly tables if the query time range does exceed the time range of the fast tables. In one embodiment, the present invention further includes searching a set of daily tables if the query time range also exceeds the time range of the hourly tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: McAfee, Inc.
    Inventors: Rick Lowe, Stephen Brocker
  • Patent number: 8555182
    Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed for management and easy reorganization of graphical objects displayed over the graphical user interface. The graphical user interface may relate to prioritizing and organizing the results of a database search. The graphical user interface may alternatively relate to prioritizing and organizing graphic objects such as personalized topics on a homepage and formatting icons in a productivity application program, such as a word processing application program, a spreadsheet application program, a presentation application program and a drawing application program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Robert S. Dietz, Douglas W. Herman
  • Publication number: 20130262230
    Abstract: According to the disclosed subject matter, various embodiments for generating a search results page that provides contextual information to an entity/target site associated with a search result are presented. In response to receiving a search query from a user, a set of search results is obtained. Each search result in the set of search results comprises a hyperlink to content at a target site. From the set of identified search results, a search results page is generated. The generated search results page includes at least one search result that is encoded with data for providing contextual information of the user's current query context to the corresponding target site upon user selection of the at least one search result. The generated search results page is then provided to the user in response to the search query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Simon P. King, Rahul Nair
  • Patent number: 8548989
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for searching a set of documents using search terms. In one embodiment, a summary is provided for each document in the set. Search terms are received, and the set of documents are parsed using the received search terms. A first relevance value is calculated using only the summary of each document. A subset of documents having the highest relevance is provided by using the first relevance value. The subset of documents is parsed using the received search terms, to calculate a second relevance value for each document using the respective document. Query results are provided, the query results including documents having the highest relevance according to the second relevance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John B. Pickering, Fenglian Xu
  • Patent number: 8548995
    Abstract: A ranking component refines an initial document ranking in which the initial ranking is based on a scoring criterion. The ranking component generates or receive a set of documents that are related to a document. The set of documents may be related in a number of ways, such as similarity in authorship or publisher. The ranking component then applies the scoring criterion to the set of related documents to generate a related set score. The related set score is used to refine the initial rankings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Curtiss
  • Publication number: 20130254191
    Abstract: Determining ranked candidate media in response to media query data corresponding to a query media includes receiving the media query data including feature data of the query media, coordinate data, and boundary data, matching the features with corresponding features of an media database using the feature data to identify features in the media database within a predetermined hamming distance in a hash table from the corresponding features of the query media to obtain matched features in the media database, determining candidate media whose number of matched features exceeds a matched feature threshold, generating a geometry similarity score between the query media and each candidate media using the feature data and the coordinate data, generating a boundary similarity score between the query media and each candidate media using the boundary data, ranking the candidate media based on the numbers of matched features, the geometry similarity scores and the boundary similarity scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
    Inventors: Junfeng He, Shih-Fu Chang, Tai-Hsu Lin
  • Publication number: 20130246411
    Abstract: Search systems and methods for searching structured data and enhancing the relevancy of search results provided to a requesting user or application. Enhanced search results are provided by searching a cache of a user's most recently used items to eliminate or reduce search indexing latency. Also, more relevant search results are provided by re-ranking results based on use history, data security models and: or hierarchical user role models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc
    Inventors: Kevin Oliver, Scott Hansma, Craig Weissman, Paul Nakada, Jeanine Walters
  • Patent number: 8538389
    Abstract: The accessing of event related content on a client device at an event techniques include a method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. In some embodiments of these techniques, the method includes receiving a request to check-in to the event from the client device. The check-in request includes geographic location information of the client device. The method further includes determining whether the client device is located at a venue holding the event based on the received geographic location information of the client device and a first predetermined radius. The method further includes determining whether the event at the venue is in progress. The method further includes transmitting a first plurality of event information to the client device based upon determination that the client device is located at the venue and the event is in progress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: MLB Advanced Media, L.P.
    Inventors: Chad Evans, Adam Ritter
  • Patent number: 8538957
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for validating candidate translations for a phrase. A plurality of candidate translations for a phrase are received. A similarity score for each of the candidate translations is calculated. Each similarity score is an estimate of visual similarity between a group of visual media search results responsive to a visual media search query with text corresponding to the phrase and a group of visual media search results responsive to a visual media search query with text corresponding to a candidate translation. One or more of the candidate translations are selected based on the similarity scores. The selected candidate translations are associated with the phrase as valid translations for the phrase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Yun Zhou, Vanessa Hodge, Gaurav Garg, Radhika Malpani
  • Patent number: 8533203
    Abstract: Identifying synonyms of entities using a collection of documents is disclosed herein. In some aspects, a document from a collection of documents may be analyzed to identify hit sequences that include one or more tokens (e.g., words, number, etc.). The hit sequences may then be used to generate discriminating token sets (DTS's) that are subsets of both the hit sequences and the entity names. The DTS's are matched with corresponding entity names, and then used to create DTS phrases by selecting adjacent text in the document that is proximate to the DTS. The DTS phrases may be analyzed to determine whether the corresponding DTS is synonyms of the entity name. In various aspects, the tokens of an associated entity name that are present in the DTS phrases are used to generate a score for the DTS. When the score at least reaches a threshold, the DTS may be designated as a synonym. A list of synonyms may be generated for each entity name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Surajit Chaudhuri, Venkatesh Ganti, Dong Xin
  • Patent number: 8533190
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to methods and systems for searching and retrieving records from a database and in particular to capturing a user's preferences to facilitate retrieval of records from the database in accordance with those preferences. The invention is suitable for use in applications in which the records retrieved from the database correspond to books, films, music or the like and it will be convenient to describe the invention in relation to that exemplary, but non-limiting, application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Inventor: Peter Walker
  • Publication number: 20130232141
    Abstract: A method and system for determining a service description that most closely matches a service name. A ranked service name list is generated by use of a name parser, a dictionary, and a name composer, wherein the ranked service name list comprises at least one alternative service name and a respective rank of each alternative service name of the at least one alternative service name, and wherein the respective rank indicates how closely the alternative service name associated with the respective rank resembles the service name provided by the user. It is ascertained that the service description matches the highest ranked alternative service name in the service name list. The service description matching the highest ranked alternative service name is communicated to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Waseem A. Roshen
  • Patent number: 8527493
    Abstract: Systems and processes are provided for selecting content items for distribution to content distribution slots. A content distributor can identify relevant content for distribution in response to a request for content associated with a first domain by identifying a target domain to associate with the first domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Nicolas Hamatake
  • Patent number: 8527523
    Abstract: An electronic document analysis method receiving N electronic documents pertaining to a case encompassing a set of issues including at least one issue and establishing relevance of at least the N documents to at least one individual issue in the set of issues, the method comprising, for at least one individual issue from among the set of issues, receiving an output of a categorization process applied to each document in training and control subsets of the at least N documents, the output including, for each document in the subsets, one of a relevant-to-the-individual issue indication and a non-relevant-to-the-individual issue indication; building a text classifier simulating the categorization process using the output for all documents in the training subset of documents; and running the text classifier on the at least N documents thereby to obtain a ranking of the extent of relevance of each of the at least N documents to the individual issue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Equivio Ltd.
    Inventor: Yiftach Ravid
  • Publication number: 20130226917
    Abstract: A document search apparatus for searching stored document data based on a specified search word is provided with a search word input unit for inputting the search word, a search processing unit for counting the number of times the search word appears in the document data, and a display control unit for changing, based on the number of times the search word appears in the document data counted by the search processing unit, an amount of the document data displayed. The document search apparatus is capable of lightening the burden placed on the user in finding the document of interest and in search refinement by displaying the search result in an easy-to-see graphical layout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: OKI DATA CORPORATION
    Inventor: OKI DATA CORPORATION
  • Patent number: 8521731
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards systems, methods and computer program products for providing query-based advertising content. According to one embodiment, a method for providing query-based advertising content comprises receiving a web query and generating an ad query associated with the web query, wherein the ad query is generated on the basis of one of a query to advertisement relationship, a query to feature vector relationship, or a rewritten query vector. An advertisement is selected on the basis of the generated ad query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Andrei Z. Broder, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josifovski, Donald Metzler, Lance Riedel, Peter Ciccolo
  • Patent number: 8521711
    Abstract: A persistent filter refining system places a search result comprising objects in a dynamic non-persistent bucket and displays the search result in a dynamic non-persistent bucket display for selection of the objects by a user. The system transfers a selected object from the dynamic non-persistent bucket to a persistent bucket and displays the transferred selected object in a persistent bucket display. The system iteratively provides additional search results to the user for selection and transfer of additional selected objects to the persistent bucket to provide access by a user to take action on the transferred selected object and additional selected objects. In one embodiment, the present system displays one or more additional search results for comparison and selection of objects by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tanya Couch, Farnaz Erfan, Thomas Friedrich, Daina Edvina Pupons Wickham, Alexander Daniel Robinson
  • Publication number: 20130218884
    Abstract: A method for providing a review from a customer relationship management (CRM) system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a message including a request for a review relevant to a viewer from a requesting user system associated with a first user, where the message also includes information identifying a review subject and readily available information related to the viewer. Reviews related to the review subject and managed by a CRM system are identified and a relevance score is determined for each of the records based on relevance factors relating to the viewer and to data managed by the CRM system, and social media influence factors relating to social media content from a social networking entity. Recommended reviews are selected based on the relevance scores of the reviews, and information identifying the recommended reviews is included in a response message that is transmitted to the requesting user system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: salesforce.com, inc.
  • Publication number: 20130218886
    Abstract: A context-aware targeted information delivery system comprises a mobile device, an MMR matching unit, a plurality of databases for user profiles, user context and advertising information, a plurality of comparison engines and a plurality of weight adjusters. The mobile device is coupled to deliver an image patch to the MMR matching unit which in turn performs recognition to produce recognize text. The recognized text is provided to a first and second comparison engines to produce relevant topics and relevant ads. The relevant topics and relevant ads are adjusted with information from a user context database including information such as location, date, time, and other information from a user profile. The third comparison engine compares the relevant topics and relevant ads to produce a set of final ads that are most related to the topics of interest for the user and delivered for display on to the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jamey Graham, Jonathan J. Hull
  • Publication number: 20130218885
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, apparatus, and methods for context-aware messaging. In various implementations, a conversation between two or more users may be hosted by a communications tool, where the conversation generates text included in a conversation thread. Information and entities may be extracted from the generated text. One or more weights may be assigned to each of the extracted plurality of entities based on the contents of the conversation thread. The one or more weights may provide a rank for each of the extracted entities for a search of at least one information feed. In some implementations, the at least one information feed may be searched based on the weighted extracted entities to identify at least one relevant information feed. The at least one relevant information feed may be updated with the information extracted from the conversation thread.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: salesforce.com, inc.
  • Publication number: 20130218882
    Abstract: A method for providing information to a user system from a customer relationship management (CRM) system is disclosed. The method embodiment includes receiving by a server a message from a user that includes a request for recommended information relevant to the user and/or an enterprise, where the message also includes real-time user-specific information collected by and stored on the user's system and/or enterprise-specific information. The method also includes identifying records managed by a CRM system based on the real-time user-specific and/or the enterprise-specific information. A relevance score is determined for each of the identified records based on relevance factors and on social media influence factors, and recommended records are selected based on the relevance scores of the recommended records. Information identifying the recommended records is included in a response message that is transmitted by the server to the user's system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Jager McConnell, Ciara Peter
  • Publication number: 20130218883
    Abstract: A method for providing recommended information relating to an account from a customer relationship management (CRM) system is disclosed. The method embodiment includes receiving by a server a message from a user system associated with a user including a request for information relating to a target account representing a customer, competitor and/or partner of an enterprise, and information identifying the target account. Based on the information identifying the target account, accessible records associated with the enterprise and relating to the target person are identified, and public social media content relating to the target account is collected from social networking entities. A comprehensive account profile associated with the target account is generated based on the accessible records and on the social media content, and at least a portion of the profile is included in a response message that is transmitted by the server to the user system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Jager McConnell, Ciara Peter
  • Publication number: 20130218880
    Abstract: A method for providing recommended products from a customer relationship management (CRM) system is disclosed. The method embodiment includes receiving from a user system a message including a request for a product relevant to a customer affiliated with an enterprise, where the message also includes information identifying the customer, the enterprise, and/or a product purchased by the customer. The method also includes identifying suggested products based on information managed by the CRM system and related to the customer, the enterprise and/or the purchased product. A relevance score is determined for each of the suggested products based on relevance factors and social media influence factors, and recommended products are selected based on the relevance scores of the recommended products. Information identifying the recommended products is included in a response message that is transmitted to the user system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: salesforce.com, inc.
  • Patent number: 8515955
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention disclose a method, a system and a computer program product of discovering automated insights in XML data by generating a query result in response to querying data using a query, wherein the data is in a markup language format, and identifying a pattern associated with the query result, wherein the data in the markup language format is used for pattern identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Manish A. Bhide, Venkat Chakravarthy, Mukesh K. Mohania, Girish Venkatachaliah
  • Patent number: 8515953
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for constructing a temporal visualization of query results. That is, query results associated with temporal information, such as timestamps, may be used to create a temporal distribution (e.g., query results comprising images and image capture dates, web pages and web page creation dates, etc.). The temporal distribution may comprise a distribution of the query results over time (e.g., query results may be sorted and/or grouped based upon dates specified by the timestamps). A temporal visualization of the query results may be constructed using the temporal distribution. For example, query results may be assigned to date slots within the temporal visualization. The temporal visualization may illustrate a substantial number of query results (e.g., thousands) that may otherwise not be visually presentable at once. Zoom commands and/or hover commands may be processed to provide finer and/or coarser granularity of the query results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kyriakos Karenos, Francesco Nidito, Milad Shokouhi, Igor Nitto
  • Patent number: 8515934
    Abstract: Various aspects can be implemented for providing parallel resources in search results. In general, one aspect can be a method that includes receiving a search query in a first language. The method also includes generating a search result based on the search query, the search result including a location reference to an identified resource in the first language. The method further includes identifying a parallel resource in a second language, the parallel resource including one or both of a high-quality translation of the identified resource, and an original resource originating in the second language on a similar topic as the identified resource. Other implementations of this aspect include corresponding systems, apparatus, and computer program products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Hayden Shaw
  • Publication number: 20130212091
    Abstract: An electronic communication system is controlled by a content service provider to return relevant information from a content specific database in response to a user query. The content service provider compiles a plurality of content specific databases, each dedicated to a category of information of interest to the user. The user registers a user profile with the content service provider. A query, including the selected content specific database, is transmitted from the user to the content service provider. The selected content specific database is searched for the first level query within context of the user profile. A menu of matches is generated from the content specific database for the first level query. The menu is organized by relevance scores assigned to the matches based on correspondence to the first level query. The menu is transmitted from the content service provider through the electronic communication network to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: Eye Level Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Eye Level Holdings, LLC
  • Patent number: 8510297
    Abstract: A dispatching system adjusts resources to meet real-time changes in demand. When a customer requests service, a work assignment is generated and sent to an employee. When a customer cancels the requested service, a cancellation code is sent to the employee. The cancellation code informs the employee that the work assignment has been canceled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Patrichia Ditcharo, James S. Wheeler
  • Patent number: 8510296
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for automatically estimating the confidence of a detected LAT to provide a more accurate overall score for an obtained candidate answer. A confidence “score” or value of each detected LAT is obtained, and the system and method performs combining the confidence score with a degree of match between a LAT and an AnswerType of the candidate answer to provide improved overall score for the candidate answer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James J. Fan, David A. Ferrucci, David C. Gondek, Aditya A. Kalyanpur, Adam P. Lally, James W. Murdock, Wlodek W. Zadrozny
  • Publication number: 20130204869
    Abstract: Briefly, embodiments of methods or systems to measure or employ reading comprehensibility are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: Yahoo, Inc.
    Inventors: Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Bo Pang, Chenhao Tan
  • Patent number: 8504563
    Abstract: Sorting inquiry results includes, based on extracted inquiry results matching search conditions of a user, collecting features of the inquiry results. The collected features may be used as features of a respective inquiry result and feature fitting may be conducted based on a support vector machine (SVM) regression model to obtain a feature fitting value of the respective inquiry result. The inquiry results may be sorted based on relevancy values of the inquiry results, and, for inquiry results having a same relevancy level, the inquiry results may be sorted in a top-down manner based on feature fitting values of the inquiry results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Chao Chen, Xiaomei Han
  • Patent number: 8504422
    Abstract: Techniques for recommending music and advertising to enhance a user's experience while photo browsing are described. In some instances, songs and ads are ranked for relevance to at least one photo from a photo album. The songs, ads and photo(s) from the photo album are then mapped to a style and mood ontology to obtain vector-based representations. The vector-based representations can include real valued terms, each term associated with a human condition defined by the ontology. A re-ranking process generates a relevancy term for each song and each ad indicating relevancy to the photo album. The relevancy terms can be calculated by summing weighted terms from the ranking and the mapping. Recommended music and ads may then be provided to a user, as the user browses a series of photos obtained from the photo album. The ads may be seamlessly embedded into the music in a nonintrusive manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Tao Mei, Xian-Sheng Hua, Shipeng Li, Jinlian Guo, Fei Sheng
  • Publication number: 20130191381
    Abstract: Ordering search results may include obtaining an exposed log file from a log system, computing a Bayesian posterior probability for relevancy between the log file and a search request, computing an expected value of the relevancy between the log file and the search request based on the Bayesian posterior probability, storing the search request and an identifier of the log file as a key and the expected value of the relevancy between the log file and the search request as a value into a search data structure, in response to receiving a search request submitted by a user, finding expected values of relevancy between the submitted search request and log files that are relevant to the submitted search request from the search data structure, and ordering the found log files in a descending order of the expected values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Huaxing Jin, Wei Zheng, Peng Huang, Xu Yang, Feng Lin, Jiong Feng, Qin Zhang
  • Patent number: 8495059
    Abstract: A method of searching for Personal Information Management information of a handheld electronic device includes accepting input of one or more search criteria, such as text search criteria and/or name search criteria; accepting input of a representation of a plurality of different databases or applications of the handheld electronic device including Personal Information Management information to be searched; and conducting a search of the different databases or applications based upon the one or more search criteria and the representation of different databases or applications. The method determines one or more search results from the search and displays those search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Douglas Bocking, Michael Thomas Hardy, Robert John Thomas Bredin
  • Patent number: 8495061
    Abstract: A system determines whether text of a document includes a document identifier and uses the document identifier to locate metadata in a database when the text of the document includes the document identifier. The system compares the metadata to the text of the document and associates the metadata with the text of the document when at least some of the metadata matches the text of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Maxim Lifantsev
  • Publication number: 20130185293
    Abstract: A “data breach” or loss of sensitive data can cause an organization to lose revenues or suffer other damages. Analyzing data to locate a breach and to identify its source, however, is difficult because the data can come from many sources in an unstructured format and, typically, there is a large amount of data to analyze. A forensic analysis system, according to one embodiment, collects unstructured data from disparate sources, like the Internet, and peer-to-per filesharing and social media networks, and generates structured representations of the data, called virtual profiles. The system forms relationships among the virtual profiles. The system uses the virtual profiles and relationships to reduce the amount of information to be analyzed while including additional information that is related for analysis. By analyzing a smaller amount of related information, a cyber forensic analyst is better able to identify a data breach or other suspicious or illegal activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Inventors: Robert J. Boback, Anju Chopra
  • Patent number: 8489987
    Abstract: An MMR system includes an analytics module for monitoring and analyzing the creation and usage of visual content search. The analytics module is part of a MMR gateway and provides a mechanism for administrators to determine the usage patterns and other information about users of the MMR system. This information is fed back to other components of the MMR system to improve its operation. The analytics module comprises a monitoring module, a usage database, an access analysis module and a presentation module. The monitoring module is coupled to other components of the MMR gateway and collects information about retrieval request, image queries, context information and recognition results. The usage database stores the information collected by the monitoring module. The access analysis module performs queries on the usage database and analyzes the results. The output of the access analysis module is provided to the presentation module for presentation or output to other systems and users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Berna Erol, Jonathan J. Hull
  • Patent number: 8489590
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards generating market-specific ranking models by leveraging target market specific pairwise preference data. The pairwise preference data includes market-specific training examples, while a ranking model from another market captures the common characteristics of the resulting ranking model. In one embodiment, the ranking model is trained by applying a Tree Based Ranking Function Adaptation (TRADA) algorithm to multi-grade labeled training data, such as editorially generated training data. Then, contradictions between the TRADA generated ranking model and target-market specific pairwise preference data are identified. For each identified contradiction, new training data is generated to correct the contradiction. Then, in one embodiment, an algorithm such as TRADA is applied to the existing ranking model and the new training data to generate a new ranking model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Yi Chang, Zhaohui Zheng, Fernando David Diaz, Jing Bai
  • Patent number: 8489657
    Abstract: Systems and methods identify a current location of a user based on a known location of an electronic device including kiosk, beacon, or location-aware camera when the user interacts with the electronic device. The systems and methods automatically create a user status data file based on the known location. The user status data file contains data identifying that the user is currently at the known location and other data captured about the event or venue at that location. The systems and methods automatically upload the user status data file to a personal storage account which can then be used to post to a social networking web site associated with the user as an activity post associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Michael D. Shepherd, Jennifer C. Perotti, Dale Ellen Gaucas
  • Patent number: RE44394
    Abstract: A “More Like This Headnote” search relates online headnotes intelligently so that users have the means to retrieve related headnotes quickly and easily. This is achieved by using a tailored search type in the search engine, which is designed to handle the text of a headnote as a search string. Retrieval logic then presents the search results to the user in a “Virtual Digest” view comprising related headnotes and case materials, sorted by user-selected options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Miller, Harry Silver, Andrew Freisthler