US 2002/0120609 A1 · Collaborative/adaptive search engine

Abstract

A search engine system is provided for a portal site on the internet. The search engine system employs a regular search engine to make one-shot or demand searches for information entities which provide at least threshold matches to user queries. The search engine system also employs a collaborative/content-based filter to make continuing searches for information entities which match existing wire queries and are ranked and stored over time in user-accessible, system wires corresponding to the respective queries. A user feedback system provides collaborative feedback data for integration with content profile data in the operation of the collaborative/content-based filter. A query processor determines whether a demand search or a wire search is made for an input query.

Claims1

Dependent claims

A search engine system comprising:

a first system for receiving informons from a network on a continuing search basis, for filtering such informons for relevancy to a query from an individual user, and for storing a ranked list of relevant informons as a wire;
a second system for receiving informons from a network on a current demand search basis and for filtering such informons for relevancy to the query from the individual user;
and
a third system for selecting at least one of the first and second systems to make a search for the query and to return the wire or demand search results to the individual user.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/045,198Filed 22 Oct 2001

Priority

4 Apr 1996

Published

29 Aug 2002

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

G06F 16/30
Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor: of unstructured textual data
G06F 16/337
Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles: profile generation, learning or modification
G06F 16/9535
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
G06F 16/9536
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: search customisation based on social or collaborative filtering

Family

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Application10/045,198Continuation in part · filed 22 Oct 2001

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